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‘New heads are radiators of positivity in an education world that can sometimes feel full of negativity’
Despite the challenges that come with headship, few other jobs offer such an opportunity to influence the lives of so many young people, writes one leading educationist
10 October 2016
‘If ministers really want a school system that works for everyone they should not be fiddling around with school structures’
Enabling some schools to take a greater share of academically able pupils, leaving other schools to pick up the children who are rejected, is far from the collaboration we need to see in the system, writes one leading educationist
3 October 2016
‘The government expects teachers to use evidence - it should do the same with its education policies’
The evidence against grammar schools mounts on a weekly basis, says this leading educationist. When will the government sit up and take notice?
26 September 2016
How heads and teachers can defeat the “dead cat strategy” of returning to the 11-plus
School leaders and teachers must focus on their values and principles, as it’s high quality teaching, learning and assessment that really makes a difference to the lives of young people not changing school structures, says one educationist
20 September 2016
‘Let’s shout about the success of comprehensives, not just explain why a selective system is bad’
As a result of comprehensive schools, standards have risen and the system has been a success, says one leading educationist
12 September 2016
‘This year schools will be hit by a tidal wave of Goveian reform. We must stay focused on teaching quality’
The scale and pace of reform in the education system is a huge problem – and it is partly down to how often the education secretary changes, writes a leading educationist
5 September 2016
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