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- It’s grim up north (yet again) – Education Datalab blog January 27, 2020
- Are things so good that normal seems bad? – David Didau: The Learning Spy January 24, 2020
- Are we looking in the wrong place to improve attainment? – Education Datalab blog January 20, 2020
- Why can’t we agree about internal isolation? – David Didau: The Learning Spy January 19, 2020
- The equivalence of A-Levels and reformed BTECs – Education Datalab blog January 17, 2020
- Does the new inspection framework trade off reliability against validity? – David Didau: The Learning Spy January 15, 2020
- Are Ofsted punishing disadvantaged children by penalising three-year GCSE courses? – David Didau: The Learning Spy January 14, 2020
- Removal of the outstanding exemption: Consultation matters January 10, 2020
- My most viewed posts of 2019 – David Didau: The Learning Spy December 31, 2019
- Bad PD # 517 December 31, 2019
- What do teachers need to know about Cognitive Load Theory? – David Didau: The Learning Spy December 17, 2019
- Managed moves vs permanent exclusions: Do outcomes differ? – Education Datalab blog December 17, 2019
- Schools Like Yours: Now with 2019 data for primary schools and special schools – Education Datalab blog December 16, 2019
- A conversation a day keeps the SENDCo away December 15, 2019
- Primary school league tables 2019: Are there some schools where boys are making better progress in reading than girls? – Education Datalab blog December 13, 2019
- Primary MAT league tables 2019: Comparing reading, writing and maths progress scores – Education Datalab blog December 13, 2019
- Thinking about curriculum Part 2: Why we need powerful knowledge – David Didau: The Learning Spy December 12, 2019
- Where we’re getting ‘cultural capital’ wrong. – David Didau: The Learning Spy December 11, 2019
- The importance of play (and why it’s better to avoid bullshit) – David Didau: The Learning Spy December 10, 2019
- My favourite reads this year – David Didau: The Learning Spy December 9, 2019
- ‘Who’s Left 2019’: additional (quirky) suggestions December 7, 2019
- The effect of GCSE reforms: How have they affected long-term disadvantaged pupils? – Education Datalab blog December 5, 2019
- The effect of GCSE reforms: Have they widened the disadvantage gap? – Education Datalab blog December 5, 2019
- Who’s Left 2019, part one: The disadvantage gap is bigger than we thought – Education Datalab blog December 5, 2019
- Who’s Left 2019, part three: The government needs to take action – Education Datalab blog December 5, 2019
- Who’s Left 2019, part two: How do you lose 6,700 pupils? – Education Datalab blog December 5, 2019
- Is England’s PISA 2018 data reliable? – Education Datalab blog December 3, 2019
- Nine key findings from PISA 2018 – Education Datalab blog December 3, 2019
- Data, data everywhere… – Education Datalab blog December 3, 2019
- Five things to remember when the PISA 2018 results are released – Education Datalab blog December 2, 2019
- Early schooling and the lifetime risk of increasing antisocial behaviour/conduct problems December 1, 2019
- What do the latest Early Years Foundation Stage Profile results show? – Education Datalab blog November 29, 2019
- From Guided to Independent Writing — Teachwell November 28, 2019
- When the going gets tough, schools make data – Education Datalab blog November 27, 2019
- The distorting lens of perspective (and why teachers need to be professionally sceptical) – David Didau: The Learning Spy November 26, 2019
- Should England continue participating in PISA? – Education Datalab blog November 26, 2019
- Mathematics Mastery evaluation report – Education Datalab blog November 25, 2019
- Magic Breakfast evaluation report – Education Datalab blog November 25, 2019
- The road to hell – David Didau: The Learning Spy November 24, 2019
- The Baron: Chapter One: Part two: Ofsted Derangement Syndrome… November 23, 2019
- Still standing… November 20, 2019
- Is Canada really an education “superpower”? The evidence is not as clear-cut as you might think – Education Datalab blog November 19, 2019
- What works best for children with SEND works best for all children – David Didau: The Learning Spy November 17, 2019
- Reading catch-up for older students: one-to-one or small groups? November 16, 2019
- Why I have a problem with PiXL November 15, 2019
- Should we bring back contextual value added? – Education Datalab blog November 15, 2019
- Should we eat more fish or more ice cream to boost PISA scores? – Education Datalab blog November 12, 2019
- Are schools ever at fault for exclusions? – David Didau: The Learning Spy November 11, 2019
- What causes exclusion and what does exclusion cause? – David Didau: The Learning Spy November 10, 2019
- Faff vs slick practice – why an experience with Direct Instruction should be the entitlement of every SCITT student November 9, 2019
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Monthly Archives: August 2015
What is relevance? – David Didau: The Learning Spy
A few days ago I wrote this post about how we might make learning more durable. In it, I wrote about the importance of relevance and said of my experience of attending a speed awareness course that… Continued here http://ift.tt/1KnUVvo
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The new English Language GCSE: introducing 19th century fiction
Originally posted on Othmar's Trombone:
Despite my delight at the inclusion of unseen 19th century fiction on the new English Language GCSE, I know that it will present some challenges to pupils. This means it will also present challenges to…
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Big data, little data.
Originally posted on missdcoxblog:
I’ve been thinking about what happens in many secondary schools on the first day back in September. All the staff are sat, dreaming of the lay-ins that they’ve had for the past few weeks and up…
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Empathy for the Secret Teacher
I don’t normally pay any attention to The Guardian’s Secret Teacher. It always feels to me like it’s competitive negativity – some kind of competition to see who works in the worst school. I know why The Guardian does it … Continue reading
Policy Exchange – Fining secondary schools to fund FE
A think tank, Policy Exchange, published a report this week arguing that secondary schools whose pupils fail to achieve required grades in GCSE maths and English should be fined, with funding for a ‘resit levy’ reallocated to Further Education colleges. … Continue reading
The sticky problem of threshold concepts in music
I came across the idea of threshold concepts in David Didau’s book What If Everything You Knew About Education Was Wrong? In the book he refers to the work of Jan Meyer and Ray Land, who describe threshold concepts as … Continue reading
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What Remains: Remembering Kevin, a year on
A year ago, Kevin McKellar, Head of Hendon School, took his own life. I wrote about him in the aftermath of hearing the news. It wasn’t public knowledge at the time that it was suicide, though the news did gradually … Continue reading
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