Education Policy

The Education System that Lost its Purpose
Teacher Political Neutrality and Other Relevant Matters
Unseen Extracts: The Last Barrier to Reading Comprehension?
Reading Strands are Meaningless
Perverse Incentives: The KS2 Reading SAT and the Myth of Generic Reading Comprehension Skills
Is the KS2 Reading SAT testing reading?
Reforming the Key Stage 2 Reading SAT – Why it’s Needed and Possible.
In Defence of British Values
Accountability Measures?
Express Yourself
Primary Writing Genres – Sacrificing Depth for Breadth (Updated)
The Unethical Code of the College of Teaching
Battle of Ideas #1 – History Wars
Hypocrisy Is Hypocrisy
We Don’t Need No Innovation
James Callaghan and the Ruskin Speech
Why Ambition is Not a Dirty Word
What Difference Do Words Make?
Gramsci and Education
Jeremy Corbyn – Persuader and Evader
Time to Link Social Mobility and Education Again
What Now for Education?
Fear and Loathing in UK Classrooms
Not Waving But Drowning
Is Academisation Undemocratic?
EEE – Principle 1 – Great Teaching
Structure Vs Action?
No Preferred Method of Teaching?
Moving on from Maslow
Maslow’s Hierarchy – Critique Part One
Independent Writing and Independent Moderators
How Stressed are Children about Exams?
Parents and Children as Consumers (Updated)
The Hijacking of the Left in Education
Oh Look the Sun Came Out Today and Made the Ice’ – Conversations I’ve Had That Changed Me.