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James Bowen
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‘Schools are constantly being asked to do more with less - they can’t solve all of society’s issues alone’
Extra duties come with extra costs and next week’s budget needs to include additional funding for our schools, writes one teachers’ leader
16 November 2017
Policymakers must pass the accountability test
The latest Ofsted report acknowledges its role in creating a system that places too much emphasis on results. Now it’s time for a debate, says James Bowen
20 October 2017
‘We need to break free from the belief that numbers on a chart act as a reliable proxy for learning’
Schools have the key to break the shackles of teacher assessment – but teachers need to be brave enough to introduce their own post-levels system, writes NAHT’s James Bowen
7 October 2017
Sats: ‘Gone are the days when perfectly good writers are unfairly penalised’
Hopefully we will no longer see pupils that can write to undergraduate standard at a disadvantage for being dyslexic
14 September 2017
‘Teachers having a normal life outside school is just too much for many pupils to take’
The idea that all teachers live at school is one of the teacher myths we should enjoy, writes one union leader
12 September 2017
‘Look across the Atlantic - leadership can never be a one-person show, so surround yourself with the right people’
Advice for new leaders on the challenges of school leadership they will face and how to stay motivated when times get tough
5 September 2017