Missing school for holiday has NO negative impact on attainment
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...
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What is wrong with the mainstream? Select Committee report into exclusions
by dan
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
by dan
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
by dan
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....
“Little robots”: behind the scenes at an academy school
by dan
New research from Cambridge University’s Faculty of Education lifts the lid on an influential academy school, and finds an authoritarian system that reproduces race and...
UK school system failing
by dan
The stress, pressure and unhappiness of the UK’s school children has not ‘paid off’ in success. The UK schooling system is failing on many levels....
Teachers at breaking point – stories and letters in the press
by dan
Teachers and headteachers are among those upset at what the school system has become, a number voicing their unhappiness at their inability to give their...
George Monbiot on Schools
by dan
George Monbiot critiques the perverse ways of the modern schooling system – with its crushing rules and boredom that seem to be training our children...
School is a prison – and damaging our kids (Peter Gray, Salon)
by dan
Professor of psychology Peter Gray on our system of schooling and the joy and success that education can be, if we follow what we know...
Proposed tests for 4 year olds faces strongest criticism from experts and campaigners
by dan
The Department of Education’s proposed £10 million baseline assessment for four year old’s starting reception has been rejected in the strongest of terms by a...