/ October 14, 2018 at 6:42 AM
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I had thought a conflict of interest was a well known concept. I googled it and Wikipedia said pretty much what I already thought: A conflict of interest (COI) is a situation in which a person or organization is involved in multiple interests, financial or otherwise, and serving one…
/ October 6, 2018 at 5:20 PM
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Over the last few years I have been following the development of the Chartered College of Teaching, the successor organisation to the late, unlamented General Teaching Council of England, which was abolished by Michael Gove. It was repeatedly promised by…
/ October 6, 2018 at 6:12 AM
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Back in May, I wrote a post, If we are not careful, history will repeat itself on exclusions, arguing that complaints about a rise in exclusions were something we had seen before, and were misguided. I made the following points: Exclusion is a last…
/ September 29, 2018 at 8:41 AM
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Earlier this year I wrote a couple of posts about the Education Endowment Foundation’s summary of the research on ability grouping. Why is the EEF getting it so wrong about ability grouping? The EEF were even more wrong about ability grouping…
/ July 15, 2018 at 6:34 AM
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Just a quick post here, but something on Twitter reminded me of another problem I’d talked about when the College of Teaching was proposed. Back when discussions were underway about the Chartered College Of Teaching, one thing I argued for…
/ May 19, 2018 at 7:36 AM
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This is a follow up to this post, and is the second of three posts about attempts to silence educational traditionalists online. In the last year or two, I have seen an apparent rise in the use of legal threats…
/ May 5, 2018 at 6:45 AM
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Teacher Tapp is an app that surveys teachers every day. While those who answer are self-selecting so it is probably not completely reflective of all teachers, it’s probably going to be biased towards the more informed teacher, rather than the…
/ February 4, 2018 at 7:47 AM
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Yesterday I blogged about the background to the issue of teacher autonomy and the dilemma facing traditionalists who, when progressives were in control, argued for autonomy, but now see it used to justify bad practice. Although I still tend to…
/ February 3, 2018 at 7:53 AM
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When I first started blogging, and for several years afterwards, teachers were being forced to teach in a way that, if you were familiar with the history of educational thought, could only be described as “progressive”. Skills were more important…
/ January 5, 2018 at 8:26 AM
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Three weeks ago a couple of people (who I would call “trolls”, but who would no doubt see themselves as perfectly justified in all the abuse they’ve posted over the years) started sharing my blogposts from 8 or 9 years…
/ November 19, 2017 at 7:13 PM
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Yesterday I wrote about what I think makes some subjects “academic” and other subjects, while still worthwhile, not academic. The discussion on Twitter immediately afterwards was particularly helpful in helping me reconsider some points and defend others (although by now…
/ 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…
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