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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: April 2017
More Light?
Originally posted on Horatio Speaks:
OPHELIA: The king rises! HAMLET: What? Frighted with false fire? CLAUDIUS: Give me some light! Away! – Hamlet In Act Three of Hamlet, the troubled prince hatches a plan to prove the king’s guilt. He…
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Why group socialisation theory argues against grammar schools – David Didau: The Learning Spy
My last post was written to explain why I thought ‘grammar schools for all’ was probably an unworkable idea. I introduced Judith Rich Harris’s group socialisation theory to support… Continued here http://ift.tt/2puusEW
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Gibberish sprinkled with question marks: in nonsense is strength
Originally posted on Othmar's Trombone:
Early on in Kurt Vonnegut’s 1973 novel Breakfast of Champions, the narration turns to the setting of the story: the United States of America. Vonnegut transcribes the first verse of the national anthem and concludes of America:…
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Education is an end in itself not a preparation for the workplace
Originally posted on chronotope:
It’s a well observed truth that because everyone has had an education, everyone feels well placed to comment on all aspects of education. Often that takes the form of “My experience of education was like this so all…
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Another one bites the dust
Originally posted on teaching personally:
So that’s it. I am told that today is officially my last day of paid employment as a teacher, at least for the time being. Although the paperwork has not come through yet, I must…
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Project-based school improvement
Originally posted on Filling the pail:
Embed from Getty Images To improve a school, it is necessary to focus on one or two things and then relentlessly go after them for about four or five years. That seems to work.…
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Elected governors and removal from office matters
Originally posted on Governing Matters:
Earlier this year the Department for Education (DfE) launched a consultation into the proposal, “Enabling maintained school boards to remove elected governors”. The consultation posed three questions: Do you agree that governing bodies should be…
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