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‘Adolescence now lasts longer than ever before - in schools, we would do well to remember it’
Adolescence doesn’t just bring about change, but turbulence for our pupils. But it’s within education that teenagers take responsibility for the world, writes one educationalist
20 May 2017
‘Schools exist to prepare young people for the world, not just for the next set of exams’
We should encourage pupils to question as well as conform – following the rules and avoiding risks don’t always ease career progression, writes one educationalist
15 May 2017
‘GCSEs are a well-designed assessment, but they have been hijacked for use as a metric by which to judge schools and teachers’
Don’t blame the GCSEs themselves – question the uses to which they are being put, urges one leading educationist
6 May 2017
‘Why is it left to extra-curricular activities to promote collaboration and teamwork in school?’
Our system’s focus on individualism distorts education by encouraging students to value leadership for the sake of being in charge, rather than achieving something of substance
29 April 2017
‘It’s dangerous to think there’s an evidence-based equation that adds up to effective teaching. It diminishes teachers’ professionalism’
The outcomes of education, while not a complete mystery, issue out of a “black box”, with complex causal connections, writes one educationalist
23 April 2017
‘Spare a thought for the humble comma, the least celebrated of punctuation marks’
Adherents of the Oxford comma stand accused of pedantry and elitism but it is no joke – careless punctuation may not cost lives, but it can be very expensive
1 April 2017
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