Opinion: Policy

Phillipson must put an end to the policy hokey cokey

Without a long-term sense of direction and clear responsibilities, all of our other problems will be harder to fix

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Tom Richmond
Opinion: Policy

Let’s get beyond the toxic exclusions debate

We need to worry less about exclusions and worry more about alternative provision, concludes our new report

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Pete Whitehead
Opinion: Policy

Every leader should RISE to this school improvement challenge

Early concerns aside, RISE teams are an opportunity to be part of re-defining school improvement as sector-led, universal and...

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Dr Kate Chhatwal
Opinion: Policy

The keys to success for Labour’s RISE teams

Here's what the government's new regional teams can learn from previous policy successes in school improvement

JL Dutaut
Mel Ainscow
Opinion: Policy

The cost of our dysfunctional school meals system

More and more families are getting in debt to their schools to feed their children, reveals a new survey

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Georgina Burt
Opinion: Policy

How Labour can get regional improvement teams right

Regional improvement teams are an understandable effort to spread capacity more equally, but the policy faces a number of...

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Sir David Carter
Opinion: Policy

Why RISE teams could be this government’s biggest educational legacy

A policy that picks up on the lasting impact of the London Challenge and the best MATs is good...

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Ed Dorrell
Opinion: Policy

Labour can’t be all talk and no action on oracy

Given that children in the lowest income group start school with language skills 19 months behind their wealthier peers...

JL Dutaut
Ayesha Baloch
Opinion: Policy

How Labour can deliver a truly inclusive education system

The new government has a golden opportunity to end the box-ticking approach to inclusion and bring about a system...

JL Dutaut
Amanda Wright and Matthew Shanks