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‘Education faces a crisis of measurement due to dramatic exam and assessment reform’
And as a result we will make bad decisions, invest in the wrong initiatives, punish the wrong schools and make inaccurate statements about the performance of regions, writes the leader of a heads’ union
25 February 2016
‘Let’s have a sensible conversation about Ofsted. And avoid sounding like Donald Trump’
We need to think carefully about what we do about school inspection, writes the leader of a heads’ union. Abolition could lead to over-reliance on data
20 February 2016
‘Heads must have the courage of their convictions, resist external pressures, and support LGBT teachers who want to come out’
School leaders need to support their LGBT staff if they decide to be open, including backing them if parents decide to complain, writes the leader of a heads’ union
3 February 2016
‘Why heads must learn to procrastinate and pay lip service to unnecessary initiatives’
School leaders have to protect their schools from ‘initiativitis’, writes the general secretary of a heads’ union
19 January 2016
‘This constant churn of new tests and accountability measures is no way to improve primary performance’
The decision to create yet more tests, including the government’s new times table check at KS2, risks importing turmoil into primaries and undermining the work of teachers, writes the leader of a headteachers’ union
4 January 2016
Prevent Strategy: ‘Teachers aren’t counter-terrorism experts and don’t want to be members of the security service’
The general secretary of the NAHT headteachers’ union sets out his three-point plan for how schools can help to protect pupils from radicalisation
21 October 2015
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