/ December 4, 2016 at 8:23 AM
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Back in July 2015 I wrote this post and this post about arguments that were being used more and more by progressives, as their traditional arguments of “it’s what the government/OFSTED tell us to do” and “it’s what the research…
/ September 16, 2016 at 8:59 AM
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Last week there were stories in the press about a school that enforced its uniform policy (yes, that really was considered newsworthy). Much of the response resembled “school shaming” which I wrote about in this series of posts in the…
/ August 26, 2016 at 8:38 PM
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The College of Teaching popped up again today on social media. I have blogged about this very many times. There has been a prolonged attempt by the education establishment to create a new professional body for teachers, following Michael Gove’s…
/ August 18, 2016 at 10:18 AM
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Apologies for getting a bit behind with these. In May, Schools Week published my review of the best blogs of the week. Purple praise: a spoon full of sugar helps the marking go down By @Xris32 We all know that praise in…
/ August 10, 2016 at 7:53 PM
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I have been writing a series of posts about schools being publicly ‘shamed’ in the press and on social media. The Daily Mail is still shaming schools Don’t Twitter shame a school and call it a debate What’s it like for a…
/ August 10, 2016 at 7:53 PM
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I have been writing a series of posts about schools being publicly ‘shamed’ in the press and on social media. The Daily Mail is still shaming schools Don’t Twitter shame a school and call it a debate What’s it like for a…
/ August 7, 2016 at 7:47 PM
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I’ve written a couple of posts recently about how schools can be “shamed” in the press (usually the Daily Mail) and on social media. Here, I’m going to show what that is like. I’m not going to name the school…
/ July 31, 2016 at 8:30 AM
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Yesterday I wrote about the Daily Mail’s shaming of schools. The stories generally consist of a parent’s complaint about a school, in which the parent describes what the school did, with insufficient attempts to confirm whether it is accurate or…
/ July 29, 2016 at 6:13 PM
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Back in January, 2015 I wrote a blogpost about the Daily Mail’s hypocrisy in shaming schools for enforcing their rules. While noticing that they often run stories complaining about a lack of discipline in schools, I observed: …they also frequently…
/ July 18, 2016 at 5:17 AM
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Continued from yesterday As discussed in the previous two posts, there is every reason to doubt the existence of a general “mental health crisis” in children in the UK. However, here I want to ask whether if we were to…
/ July 17, 2016 at 7:11 AM
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Continuing from yesterday: Here are some blog posts and articles from those who have been sceptical about the “crisis”, whether on the basis of the data or the underlying philosophy: Bleeding inside: why mental health is too important to get…
/ July 7, 2016 at 3:53 AM
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I wrote previously about why I rejected the criticisms of Amanda Spielman’s nomination to be HMCI. The news that she would be appointed was the single best news I can ever remember hearing in my ten years as an education blogger…
/ June 25, 2016 at 3:45 PM
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I took part in a discussion on inclusion on Friday. I think what I most noticed was how little disagreement there was. 10 years ago this was probably the hottest issue in education and the types of views I’m expressing…
/ June 17, 2016 at 8:43 AM
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Amanda Spielman, who it was announced at the end of last week would be the next chief inspector, is not a former teacher. Despite my general interests in giving teachers a say over education, this really doesn’t bother me. Firstly,…
/ June 3, 2016 at 5:01 PM
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Every so often it occurs to me that if you became a teacher in the last 3 or 4 years, and you trained in a good school or possibly on a good university course, you might not be aware of…
/ May 27, 2016 at 7:31 AM
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I wrote a post for Labour Teachers the week before last. As it was about education, I thought I’d share it here. Graphics courtesy of @JamesTheo. George Orwell, in Politics And The English Language, described how a stock phrase, or cliché, could stifle…
/ May 13, 2016 at 8:04 AM
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As you may recall, plans for a new professional body for teachers have been hijacked by a group of vested interests who, with the promise of taxpayers’ money, have begun setting up their own body with seems to have a…
/ May 8, 2016 at 10:13 AM
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I wrote a post for Labour Teachers the week before last. As it was about education, I thought I’d share it here. Minor edits have been made to update it. You may recall I wrote a post called “Stop Demonising Academies” about…
/ May 4, 2016 at 7:27 PM
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Twitter just brought my attention to the following story in the Guardian: Mental health champion for UK schools axed after criticising government Department of Education denies axing of role is connected to Natasha Devon’s criticism of policies such as increased…
/ May 2, 2016 at 4:39 PM
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I’ve observed in the past that it is often the posts that just straighten out the facts that are most controversial. This has once more been true in my post yesterday saying that the statistics being used to show that…
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