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The education system fails to match behaviour expertise with the schools in which it is needed most

Poor behaviour is damaging for both teachers and pupils. But a new national review promises to give teachers the tools to tackle it

Illegal exclusion is a dereliction of duty, and Ofsted is correct to condemn it, but the schools watchdog must be sure to follow the evidence

Pisa says rote-learning is holding back our schools – but memorisation and drilling are key building blocks of learning, writes one educationalist

Writing ahead of the ResearchED national conference, its director, Tom Bennett, calls for a truce in education’s ‘Great Debate’ – if only to find agreement on behaviour

The rise of fidget-spinners and the need for some in education to justify their use speaks to an unfortunate truth about education’s crypto-pathologies, writes the government’s behaviour tsar