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‘How can a school be judged “good” by Ofsted but “coasting” by the DfE, and face intervention from an RSC?’
Our accountability system is so incoherent that schools can easily lose track of who they are accountable to and for what, writes one teachers’ leader
8 February 2017
School autonomy? With Spag and phonics tests, the government has almost complete controls over classrooms
Ministers may claim that schools have been freed from the shackles of central control, but they haven’t – Westminster still has all the levers of power it needs
1 February 2017
‘For the sake of American schools, let’s hope Trump didn’t ask Gove for advice on education reform’
After Friday’s inauguration, writes one union leader, the US probably has enough problems to deal with...
19 January 2017
‘Contextual value added might not be the holy grail when it comes to holding schools to account’
Rather than trying to find the perfect measurement of progress, we need a system where pupil performance data is seen as only one individual part of a much larger picture, writes the director of middle leaders’ union NAHT Edge
9 January 2017
‘Diversity is something we should value in our education system - in terms of both leaders and schools’
I worry when I hear of multi-academy trusts taking an ‘identikit school’ approach; uniformity is not a goal we should be aspiring to, writes the director of middle leaders’ union NAHT Edge
21 December 2016
Grammar schools: just because a policy is popular, doesn’t make it right
Those of us opposing selection need to remember that Theresa May’s policy is based on politics, not education, writes one heads’ leader
7 December 2016
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