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‘It’s time to destroy the “myth of assessment”: we have almost no idea how to assess what children are learning’
We are in a mess over primary assessment – and it’s largely of our own making – because we don’t accept our own ignorance
12 April 2016
The schools minister must understand - as Dickens did - that grammar-by-rote will ruin a love of words
If we really want to understand how bizarre the government’s obsession with spelling and grammar has become, we need turn no further than the great Victorian novelist
4 March 2016
Teachers are to blame for their workload - they set unrealistic goals for themselves
Teachers want to provide the perfect education – and they feel guilty when they fall short, writes Professor Colin Richards, a former HMI and a primary sector specialist adviser to Ofsted
31 October 2015
‘The new Ofsted inspection system will not deliver on its promise of more reliability and authority’
A former Ofsted HMI has his say on the new inspection framework
23 June 2015
Curiouser and curiouser
21 February 2014
Meaningful change takes a lifetime
14 February 2014
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