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‘The long shadow of the grammar school curriculum has so far seen off all comers’
Grammar schools continue to define the terms of debate around the very purpose of secondary education, writes one leading educationist
5 February 2017
‘Will e-reading spell extinction for the bulky, perishable, non-interactive reading books?’
Handling a well-produced book is a completely different experience to reading a screen. Getting to grips with a real book is an aesthetic as well as a literary pleasure, writes one leading educationist
29 January 2017
‘Whether students take too many tests misses the point: testing has elevated assessment above pedagogy’
The quantitative amount of testing is not the issue; the point is the effect of testing on education: over-testing has bent teaching out of shape, writes one leading educationist
22 January 2017
‘Schools invite young people to submit their inherited and peer-reinforced values to scrutiny. This is invaluable’
Schools have a distinct role in the transmission of knowledge, beliefs and values – we should preserve them as the grit in the oyster of cultural transmission, writes one leading educationist
15 January 2017
‘In defence of that “special, indispensable class” - the geography teacher, with or without a beard’
Geography teachers get a bad press, yet they strive, against the prejudices of syllabus and society, to breathe genuine intellectual life into their unique subject, writes one leading educationist
7 January 2017
‘There is a strong case for giving students as many opportunities as possible for extended prose - “write” across the curriculum’
Writing doesn’t just allow students to express their more sophisticated thinking; it actually helps them to secure and develop that thinking, argues one leading educationist
10 December 2016
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