The Knowledge

How can maths and science teachers get the most out of edtech?

Key findings from an NFER rapid literature review on implementing edtech effectively in maths and science classrooms

JL Dutaut
Lillian Flemons
The Knowledge
mental health support teams in schools are too narrowly focused on milder issues, a new report has said

How has children’s mental health changed in the past year?

New prevalence figures show the post-pandemic surge in young people’s mental health issues hasn’t abated

JL Dutaut
Whitney Crenna-Jennings and Allen Joseph
Opinion: Sustainability

A school food revolution for pupils starts with us

Students have ants in their pants about sustainability – and there’s plenty we can do on food before putting…

JL Dutaut
Peter Addison-Child
Opinion: Attendance

How small changes can make a big impact on attendance

Focusing on the interactions every student experiences could transform how the most persistently absent feel about school

JL Dutaut
Shaun Brown
Opinion: Policy

Free schools proved the power of innovation. We need more of it

The greatest impact of the free schools programme was embodying a spirit of innovation that our system needs more…

JL Dutaut
Hilary Spencer and Carly Mitchell
Opinion: Leadership

The quiet crisis facing education’s governance heroes

A new NGA report reveals an urgent need to rethink governance remits – especially exclusions

JL Dutaut
Sam Henson
Opinion: Leadership

Identities can bring us together instead of stoking culture wars

Andy Hargreaves explores how the politics if identity can be a force for good if we can escape the…

JL Dutaut
Andy Hargreaves
Opinion: Policy

Thirteen years of free schools: Five lessons for policymakers

Policymakers on all sides must learn the lessons of the free schools programme and commit to its innovative approach…

JL Dutaut
David Ross
Opinion: Workforce
The Education Committee has heard from a panel of experts on how to solve specialist teacher shortages

We can and must make working in schools less toxic

Innovative solutions to the recruitment and retention crisis are emerging but the sector is not keeping pace

JL Dutaut
Penny Swain

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Given the choice, do we want SEND segregation in education?

If we accept specialist facilities should exist primarily to support inclusion, rather than as parallel systems, we must consider…

Freddie Whittaker
Dr Vasilis Strogilos
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What we learned from four Ofsted report card inspections

If the renewed framework can play a role in supporting our own high expectations, then we welcome it with…

Freddie Whittaker
Andrew Rigby
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We need your input to ensure NPQs provide the skills needed in schools 

The demands on leaders are shifting, and the frameworks that support them have to move too. Evidence and practice…

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Dr Herminder Channa

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ITT

Degree apprenticeships are key to increasing and diversifying recruitment

Work to deliver the new qualification should continue at pace to meet recruitment challenges by making teaching more accessible,…

JL Dutaut
Melanie Renowden
ITT

ITT: Which is the odd one out?

The deeply flawed ITT reforms are a threat to sustainable teacher supply for purely ideological purposes, writes David Spendlove

JL Dutaut
David Spendlove
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Exams

University clearing: How teachers can support students 

All the important details school staff need to help youngsters through clearing this year

John Dickens
Sam Sykes
Exams

How sitting an exam re-affirmed my respect for our students

I still believe exams to be the best way of testing academic knowledge and understanding but they’re no bagatelle,…

JL Dutaut
James Handscombe
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