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You can’t really expect school leaders to fall in love with Ofsted. However, if we work together...

The proposed ‘good-ish’ Ofsted judgement will be seen as a mark of decline – it will damage schools, warns Nick Brook

National examinations will never be able to capture all aspects of a pupil’s progress or all the different ways in which a school contributes to pupil progress, writes one heads’ leader

Recent proposals that would change how Ofsted inspects schools risk increasing the pressure felt by those being assessed

It’s time we got rid of the flawed assessment framework around KS2 writing Sats – and we need it to happen now, not next year, writes one heads’ leader

After the chaos of last year, the government seems to have listened to teachers’ protests – so maybe we can now build a system that we can all have faith in