Time in isolation – just another part of the school day
News coverage of strict schools and their use of disciplinary measures such as isolation has become a regular part of the news cycle, with the...
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Prof Bill Lucas: An open letter to the Secretary of State for Education
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Professor Bill Lucas, Centre for Real-World Learning at the University of Winchester, one of the authors of ‘Educating Ruby’ is another voice in education stressing...
Love of learning more important than IQ
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Decades of research from educational psychologists Adele and Allen Gottfried show that motivation is more important than high IQ in success and that we need...
Self-directed, game playing and social – how it can work in schools
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So called ‘alternative’ education – letting children decide what to learn, with the tools that interest them and without all the talking from the teacher...
Missing school for holiday has NO negative impact on attainment
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The rhetoric around every minute of school counting positively for children is fierce and it is loud, but the facts don’t back it up In...
IBM 2010 global CEO study: creativity most crucial factor for future success
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Anyone dismissing creativity as an optional extra, something nice to be done in free time after children have learnt all their facts and maths off...
Kids learn maths easily when they control their own learning – Peter Gray
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Professor of psychology Peter Gray on the many joyful ways kids learn maths when they follow their interests and shares personal stories of different learners....
What is wrong with the mainstream? Select Committee report into exclusions
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Education Select Committee report. Forgotten children: alternative provision and the scandal of ever increasing exclusions The Education Select Committee report is an in-depth review into...
Michael Rosen’s critique of the school system
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Education for Liberation – Michael Rosen In ‘Education for Liberation’ Michael Rosen asks the big questions: about how power, control and hierarchy are used in...
Opposition to Ofsted’s Bold Beginnings report on reception
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Ofsted’s report, Bold Beginnings, which recommended that reception year should be focused more on formal learning led to considerable opposition from people across the field....