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Schools Can't Do It All. So, How Best To Ask For Help?

Schools need durable partnershps with other types of organisation to do all that they can for their students and all that is expected of them by government. These five principles are a place to start.

British Schools Need a Bolder Rethinking of 'Enrichment'

The Department for Education's Enrichment Framework could form the basis for a more ambitious reframing of the fundamental purpose of schooling.

Would Reducing Selection Increase Opportunity? A Response to Sam Freedman

The blogger and education policy specialist has made a timely intervention in the discussion about schools' role in addressing inequality. Could any of it work in practice?

Memory Politics at Heart of Reform UK calls for "Patriotic" School History Curriculum

Reform UK's education policy centres on a schools history curriculum that would be fundamentally ahistorical.

The mixed legacy of Michael Gove

Michael Gove's education reforms shaped British schooling for over a decade. Policies being introduced by the current Education Secretary will throw them into reverse. Is she right to do so?

Specialism and Support, Not Selection, Drives Student Success

It is high time to dispell the fog of confusion around what drives student success in the later stages of secondary education.

It's Time To Take The Risks Of AI Seriously

The benefits of AI in education may be profound, but the risks are existential. Educators need to take them seriously.

University Admissions and The Matthew Effect

Or, why it really does matter who gets to attend the most competitive universities.

The Francis Review. 'Starmerism' as school improvement strategy?

The Currriculum and Assessment Review suggests many ways in which school can work better for young people. Does it go far enough?

English schools and the working classes

A series of posts on the education crisis in White working class communities. Here arranged in a (hopefully) logical reading order rather than in the order of publication.