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Surveys of children not only reveal little beyond the obvious, they are also often used as indirect prompts for influencing schoolchildren, a renowned sociologist writes

Stretching and guiding children out of their comfort zone should not be condemned by adults who confuse their own anxieties with those of young people, a renowned sociologist writes

The prevailing cultural script is that boys do not perform as well as girls in exams. As a result, the stereotype has become self-perpetuating, a renowned sociologist writes

...and too many people – including Sir Michael Wilshaw – are obsessed with the idea that all teachers should aspire to school leadership as if it is better and different

Because exams are used to hold schools to account, the intellectual content of education is diminishing, writes a leading sociologist

If we want to make children more resilient, we must avoid interpreting all their behaviour in terms of psychological issues, writes one leading sociologist