Skip to main content
Main navigation
News
Analysis
Teaching & Learning
Tes Explains
Scotland
Leadership
MAT Tracker
Middle Leadership Essentials
Newsletters
Jobs and more
Tes.com
Education jobs
Teaching resources
Tes institute
School Portal
Partners
User profile
Logout
News
Analysis
Teaching & Learning
Open
Tes Explains
Scotland
Leadership
Open
MAT Tracker
Middle Leadership Essentials
Newsletters
Jobs and more
Open
Tes.com
Education jobs
Teaching resources
Tes institute
School Portal
Partners
Authors
Kevin Rooney
All articles by
Kevin Rooney
How I helped colleagues to rise above the political noise
It’s time for schools to reject fads and gimmicks, and become a community of scholars, writes Kevin Rooney
28 April 2017
Leave ‘social mobility’ outside the school gate
Education is not a tool for social justice, but for developing children’s minds, so fix the economy first before expecting teachers to solve a problem for politicians
21 October 2016
‘I find that offensive!’ There is a chilling of free speech in schools - teachers have to stand up to it
It seems there is a serious lack of grit and resilience in many teenagers when it comes to confronting ideas they don’t like or find uncomfortable, writes one teacher
29 September 2016
‘I heard teachers publicly ridicule Leave voters as narcissistic, ignorant, selfish and racist’
This Leave-voting teacher’s excitement has quickly dissipated. Instead, he has realised that many people within education speak with open contempt and disdain about Leave voters
26 June 2016
‘I’m a Left-wing teacher: get me out of the EU’
‘It’s hard to work in education and argue that you want Brexit. I have to explain to colleagues that this isn’t about xenophobia – it’s about the right to democratic self-determination’
15 June 2016
‘Evidence-based education is no panacea, and could undermine the moral authority of teachers’
18 October 2015