Monthly Archives: July 2015

Originally posted on Stack of Marking:
This is another one I wrote for Teach Secondary Magazine (whose staff foolishly continue to fuel my delusions of grandeur by putting me in their rather fine publication). It includes all sorts of goodness…

Originally posted on Scenes From The Battleground:
One of the best analyses of progressive education is “The Crisis in Education” by Hannah Arendt. An online copy can be found here and you should read it. It was written in the early…

As autism diagnoses rose, intellectual disability diagnoses fell, reports a Penn State study on  “diagnostic substitution.” Many of the “new” autism cases reflect changes in how children are labeled rather than a rise in kids with learning or communications problems, researchers … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Not quite tabula rasa:
Students at the school at which I work learn to decode systematically and explicitly. We believe that, given the balance of evidence, a good grounding in phonics, taught systematically, will provide them with…

We have seen some lively debates in the social media in recent months about the relationship between faith schools and RE. I suspect we have seen more heat than light. I want to say at the outset that the notion … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Miss White Maths:
This week has seen the 2014 TeachFirst cohort return to Leeds to deliver our final presentations and pass our pearls of wisdom onto the (exhausted) 2015s. Hearing the journeys my peers have made at…

Lots has been said about Nicky Morgan’s latest brainchug: I may not add all that much to it, except to say that it was the kick I needed to write. I haven’t written much recently, mostly because I lost my … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Obvious but obviousness of a tricky kind:
In June 2015 the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission published research by Dr Abigail McKnight from the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion at the London School of Economics…

Originally posted on SENexchangeuk:
As we reach our first summer of #SENexchange, we thought it would be a good time to reflect on how far we have come but also where we are heading in terms of working with all…