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What does inclusion look like in practice today?

New research shows remarkably little consensus about what inclusion means – leaving the schools who do it best exposed

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Toby Greany and Jodie Pennacchia
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How can schools in poor areas attract more teachers?

New research by the National Institute of Teaching shows a mismatch between what schools offer candidates and what teachers...

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Professor Sin Wang Chong
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How are SENDCOs managing amid rising pressures?

New research reveals the pressures of escalating need and insufficient resource – but diverging views of the SENDCO role...

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Rik Chilvers
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How youth work complements and supports schools

Three studies show how youth work is a vital part of any effort to improve the lives and outcomes...

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Will Millard and Jacob Diggle
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How are multi-academy trusts navigating centralisation?

New research reveals how trusts pool funding and the opportunities and challenges for more and better centralisation

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Chris Kirk and Will Jordan
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Teacher-powered research: how we’re building the evidence around everyday practice

A new stream of EEF evaluations aims to give teachers better evidence to support their everyday practice

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Christine Kelly and Faizaan Sami
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The practice where consistency brings little benefit

A lot is made of keeping students with the same teacher year on year, but the data doesn’t bear...

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John Jerrim
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Are the theoretical underpinnings of oracy sound?

Ian Cushing reveals new research into the uncomfortable origins of oracy and how they persist in today’s political discourse

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Ian Cushing
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Can combining language and movement improve both?

Anna Cunningham sets out the results of a new study for into combining exercise and literacy with young pupils...

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Dr Anna Cunningham