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Ed Dorrell
All articles by Ed Dorrell
How much damage will ‘flattening the grass’ do to the trad cause?
Claims about behaviour management at two trusts could undermine the movement for a more traditional approach to education
20 February 2019
‘Some common sense on teacher recruitment - at last’
After leafing through the new recruitment strategy and the Early Careers Framework, Ed Dorrell is pleasantly surprised
28 January 2019
‘The state of Camhs is a national disgrace’
Child and adolescent mental health services are at breaking point – it is now a life or death issue, says Ed Dorrell
15 January 2019
We can’t let modern languages go kaputt. Vive la Résistance!
The sad truth is that modern languages in UK schools are in near-terminal decline – and, with Brexit looming, we need to halt the death spiral, writes Ed Dorrell
11 January 2019
Will Ofsted’s curriculum vision be reduced to a box-ticking exercise?
It’s crunch-time for the planned inspection reforms but will they prove a damp squib?
3 January 2019
‘The government’s immigration plans show how little it cares about schools’
Plan to stop teachers who earn less than £30k entering the country will damage schools and their pupils, says Ed Dorrell
19 December 2018