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Recent Posts
- Closing the Writing Gap – New Resources – The Confident Teacher May 22, 2022
- Year 11 attendance during the build-up to exams – Education Datalab blog May 20, 2022
- The size of multi-academy trusts – Education Datalab blog May 18, 2022
- Introducing… Closing the Writing Gap – The Confident Teacher May 17, 2022
- Does taking A-Level maths improve your grades in physics and computer science? – Education Datalab blog May 13, 2022
- Repeat suspensions and exclusions during compulsory schooling – Education Datalab blog May 11, 2022
- Leading Literacy… And Purposeful Professional Development – The Confident Teacher May 7, 2022
- Kirchhoff — and die happy May 2, 2022
- Leading Literacy… And Influencing Teachers – The Confident Teacher April 30, 2022
- Is there is a link between Year 11 pupils’ wellbeing and their GCSE grades? – Education Datalab blog April 28, 2022
- Is A level maths a requirement for A level physics and computer science? – Education Datalab blog April 26, 2022
- Leading Literacy… And Perennial Problems – The Confident Teacher April 24, 2022
- The Importance of Early Literacy – Education Datalab blog April 15, 2022
- Five things we’ve learned this term about pupil absence – Education Datalab blog April 8, 2022
- 6 Micro-moves for Academic Talk – The Confident Teacher April 2, 2022
- Do disadvantaged students choose different subjects from their peers at Key Stage 5? – Education Datalab blog April 1, 2022
- Why has DfE chosen such an unusual measure as its GCSE target in the new White Paper? – Education Datalab blog March 28, 2022
- Simple Questions to Support Change – The Confident Teacher March 20, 2022
- 30 Years of Ofsted – Education Datalab blog March 16, 2022
- Units, you nit! March 13, 2022
- The case against Power Point as means of implementing curriculum – David Didau: The Learning Spy March 13, 2022
- The FFT Regional Attendance Tracker – Education Datalab blog March 11, 2022
- Does it matter if you don’t get a C (or 4) grade in GCSE mathematics? – Education Datalab blog March 10, 2022
- Assessing English at KS3 – David Didau: The Learning Spy March 5, 2022
- Come work with me… – David Didau: The Learning Spy March 4, 2022
- How can the government’s target of 90% of pupils achieving the expected standards at Key Stage 2 be achieved? – Education Datalab blog March 1, 2022
- Why ‘disrupting education’ doesn’t work – The Confident Teacher February 19, 2022
- Who should read aloud in class? – The Confident Teacher February 12, 2022
- How did the attainment gap change during the pandemic? – Education Datalab blog February 11, 2022
- Do disadvantaged children receive enough financial education in school? – Education Datalab blog February 11, 2022
- Are there socio-economic differences in how parents interact with their children about money? – Education Datalab blog February 11, 2022
- What’s the point of more elite sixth forms? – Education Datalab blog February 11, 2022
- The financial skills of children. What can rich kids do that poor kids can’t? – Education Datalab blog February 10, 2022
- How unequal are children’s financial literacy skills? – Education Datalab blog February 10, 2022
- Marking is murder! – The Confident Teacher February 5, 2022
- Will the Government’s latest attendance initiative work? – Education Datalab blog February 4, 2022
- How many schools might be affected by new proposals to move underperforming schools into strong MATs? – Education Datalab blog February 3, 2022
- Using tenor, vehicle and ground to analyse metaphors – David Didau: The Learning Spy February 2, 2022
- The problem with marking and how to solve it – David Didau: The Learning Spy January 31, 2022
- Understanded of the pupils January 29, 2022
- 10 things to know about teaching and learning – The Confident Teacher January 29, 2022
- Who are the children who have “fallen off the radar”? – Education Datalab blog January 28, 2022
- Commonly Confused Academic Vocabulary – The Confident Teacher January 22, 2022
- How much in-person teaching have Year 11 missed? – Education Datalab blog January 21, 2022
- Measures of persistent absence for the COVID age – Education Datalab blog January 18, 2022
- Why aren’t there more students in school sixth forms? – Education Datalab blog January 17, 2022
- 5 strategies for reading complex texts – The Confident Teacher January 15, 2022
- Inspection has become tougher for primary schools – Education Datalab blog January 13, 2022
- How does A-Level subject choice vary around the country? – Education Datalab blog January 12, 2022
- Stimulating Physics Network (Phase 4 and 5) evaluation report – Education Datalab blog January 11, 2022
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Monthly Archives: September 2013
The Enduring Attraction of the Flim-Flam Man
Originally posted on Jay P. Greene's Blog:
It has been almost a decade since the publication of Education Myths. At that time I was concerned that education policy was largely driven by emotional appeals and assumed facts. “Don’t you…
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Random Ramblings: We’ve had enough of League Tables
This is the text of a letter I want to send to my local newspaper. I don’t know if the Governors will support it but I would like to ask them to: Over the last two years we have changed … Continue reading
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GCSE Tactics: Stick or Twist
Originally posted on teacherhead:
Too much gambling with high-stakes qualifications. The lack of coordination between OfQual and DFE in relation to exams reform is so frustrating. Two major mid-stream announcements have put lots of schools in a difficult position, essentially…
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Some thoughts on this week’s GCSE reforms
Originally posted on British Education Policy:
The announcement that only the first GCSE grade awarded to each pupil will count in school league tables is going to have an immediate and significant impact on secondary schools. In the interest of…
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Week four- @ASTSupportAAli
Originally posted on NewToThePost:
Late Nights… Week 4 complete and I am beginning to realise how truly exhausting long terms are!! I mean it would be fine if all I was doing was meeting members of my team/outside agencies/parents etc.…
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Weasel Words in Education Part 2: Work Smarter, Not Harder
Originally posted on e=mc2andallthat:
Work Smarter, Not Harder! This is an increasingly common phrase in the education world. It means, basically, work harder! [FX: WHIP CRACK] It is often associated, strangely enough, with very poorly thought-out initiatives. Some…
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Out In Left Field: Skills for success: let’s have less RULER and more SLANT
Has there ever been a time when most people didn’t believe the following: So-called noncognitive skills — attributes like self-restraint, persistence and self-awareness — might actually be better predictors of a person’s life trajectory than standard academic measures. ? There … Continue reading
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There’s no such thing as a free lunch | frogphilp.com
When Nick Clegg announced that soon all children aged between 4 and 7 (Reception to Year 2) will be getting a free lunch, everybody should have been pleased. “My ambition is that every primary school pupil should be able to … Continue reading
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