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- How many pupils in mainstream schools are regularly educated off-site? – Education Datalab blog July 1, 2022
- Why were GCSE grades in independent schools so high during the pandemic? – Education Datalab blog June 29, 2022
- Attainment 8 in 2022 – Education Datalab blog June 24, 2022
- How many pupils fall below the proposed national thresholds for legal intervention due to absence? – Education Datalab blog June 21, 2022
- Royal National Children’s Springboard Foundation evaluation report – Education Datalab blog June 20, 2022
- Teaching Vocabulary and Mighty Morphemes – The Confident Teacher June 18, 2022
- How many children are in unregistered alternative provision? – Education Datalab blog June 16, 2022
- Do teenagers who feel anxious about testing achieve worse GCSE grades? – Education Datalab blog June 15, 2022
- Write like the Romans – The Confident Teacher June 12, 2022
- Why A-Level physics students are doubly penalised by grading severity – Education Datalab blog June 8, 2022
- Criticising resources June 6, 2022
- Leading Literacy… And Communicating Complexity – The Confident Teacher June 5, 2022
- Embedding reading fluency in the KS3 English curriculum – David Didau: The Learning Spy May 29, 2022
- The Grammar Gap – The Confident Teacher May 28, 2022
- 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
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Monthly Archives: May 2021
From the Earth to the Moon in 270 BC
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The brain is wider than the sky, For, put them side by side, The one the other will include With ease, and you beside. Emily Dickinson How did human beings first work out the…
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Schools and the Tyranny of Merit – David Didau: The Learning Spy
One of the books I read last year that has most stayed with me is Michael Sandel’s The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good? In it, Sandel argues that meritocracy is inherently harmful… Continued here https://ift.tt/3uqdjMf
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Measuring the radius of the Earth in 240 BC
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The brain is wider than the sky, For, put them side by side, The one the other will include With ease, and you beside. Emily Dickinson, ‘The Brain’ Most science teachers find that ‘Space’…
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The problem with ‘it makes the reader want to read on’ – David Didau: The Learning Spy
One of the most common and irritating of responses to be found strewn through students’ literary or linguistic analysis is that a writer will have a made of particular choice in order to ‘make the… Continued here https://ift.tt/2ShISdV
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Binding energy: the pool table analogy
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Nuclear binding energy and binding energy per nucleon are difficult concepts for A-level physics students to grasp. I have found the ‘pool table analogy’ that follows helpful for students to wrap their heads around…
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Attendance in primary schools before and after the last lockdown – Education Datalab blog
Disadvantaged pupils in primary schools appear to have missed 50% more sessions than other pupils during the Autumn Term Continued here: https://ift.tt/2RQ6Zjy
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Visualising How Transformers Work
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‘Transformers’ is one of the trickier topics to teach for GCSE Physics and GCSE Combined Science. I am not going to dive into the scientific principles underlying electromagnetic induction here (although you could read…
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Three Pillars of Vocabulary Teaching – The Confident Teacher
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that vocabulary knowledge is crucial for pupils’ school success. Pupils are language sponges, learning thousands of words each year. Like increases in a… Continued here: https://ift.tt/3vIvZYS
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Have disadvantaged pupils fallen further behind during the pandemic? – Education Datalab blog
Read the headline findings from an ongoing study exploring the effects of COVID on the attainment gap Continued here: https://ift.tt/2RxMxE2
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Benchmarking GCSE results using historical data – Education Datalab blog
Some thoughts about benchmarking 2021 teacher assessed grades against historical GCSE results Continued here: https://ift.tt/3vCW1N4
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