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These days we’ve got headteachers who are actually scared of children – the traditional “teaching” heads are gradually being replaced by “business” heads, argues one teacher-writer

You should be on the look-out for its consequences in your classroom – but also among your staffroom colleagues, explains one teacher-writer

Our children are the most examined in Europe, and it’s squeezing the joy out of learning. Let’s just strip away the entire system and start again, says this history teacher

Despite the pressures of EBac, Progress 8 and Ofsted, we need a complete reconfiguration of the balance between academic and non-academic subjects, writes this history teacher. We need to value both equally

It doesn’t matter if you’re Stephen Hawking, no amount of academic qualifications or subject knowledge will guarantee you’ll succeed in the classroom, writes this history teacher

Children are being brainwashed into holding extremist views in illegal madrassas, preached at by hate-filled imams and subtly encouraged to isolate themselves. What chance does the average teacher have of changing that pattern, asks this history teacher