Research

Teach First polling highlights workload pressure on teachers due to worsening pupil mental health, as well as potential impact on the recruitment and retention crisis

Current family hubs will take 30 years to reach similar areas of disadvantage as the former Labour scheme, according to former children’s commissioner report

Former senior inspectors launch their own consultation on Ofsted, amid concerns that the watchdog is failing to ask important questions

The science of learning has become embroiled in an ideological argument that has little to do with the reality of what it can and cannot do for teaching, argues Jared Cooney Horvath

An open-access approach to sharing data makes studies more useful for everyone, argues Christian Bokhove

From dual coding to reading for pleasure, a trust leader outlines the benefits that can come from giving teachers time to test out their own educational research-informed ideas

Report warns against ‘punitive approaches’ like parent fines to tackle the problem of low school attendance

Getting feedback can be tough, and acting on it even tougher – so we must ensure our classes are taught to respond to feedback in a purposeful way, says Michael Hobbiss

One in five schools is now running a food bank, says report warning that policymakers are unaware of the scale of child hunger

New research compares the vocabulary in books and programmes aimed at young people – and we should heed its findings, says Alex Quigley

Research by children’s charity Chance UK found primary school exclusions to be almost exclusively pupils with SEND

Is all the work that teachers put into creating a fancy ‘book nook’ worth it in terms of encouraging more children to read and, ultimately, improving literacy? Christina Quaine finds out