Big SATs sit-in (More Than A Score)
Parents across the country joined the Big SATs Sit-in to protest against the way primary school pupils are tested. From Devon to Stockton-on-Tees, they sat...
Category : A Broken System
Pupil brings legal action against school’s isolation policy (The Guardian)
by dan
Legal action has been taken on behalf of a boy who spent 60 days – a third of a school year – in a isolation...
“Exam Factories?” NUT commissioned research shows harm
by dan
The harm of exams for children and young people and how education could be dramatically improved by stopping them Exams don’t just measure what is...
Diane Reay: Inequality of the school system
by dan
Cambridge professor Diane Reay grew up on a council estate. Her book Miseducation: Inequality, education and the working classes uncovers the massive inequalities in our...
Author Jenn Ashworth on refusing to go to school
by dan
Writer Jenn Ashworth was recently elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in its “40 Under 40” initiative. Author of three novels, numerous short...
Attainment gap between poor and better off grows at school
by dan
Not only do disadvantaged children do worse than their better off peers but the gap between them increases during their time at school Only one...
SEND crisis: A teacher’s perspective (National Education Union)
by dan
A teacher writes of the crisis for children with special educational needs or disabilities “The crisis in SEND funding and SEND support is not just impacting...
‘Last night’s episode of “School” proves it: it’s time to get rid of Ofsted’ (TES)
by dan
An opinion piece from TES writer Tom Rogers on the documentary “School” and what it shows about the way that Ofsted are damaging schools and...
Guardian investigation: some secondaries exclude over 20% of pupils
by dan
The government have been urged to act after a Guardian newspaper investigation revealed that a number of secondary schools had excluding at least one in...
Ellie Chick’s results day Twitter video #ForgottenThird
by dan
33 per cent of students in the UK got grades 1-3 in their GCSEs, officially a fail. One of those students, Ellie Chick, spoke out...