School will have found out their GCSE results yesterday. There is an understandable tendency to be at one or other extreme of the emotional continuum. Results matter a lot to teachers and school leaders. Continue reading
Speaking at the Headteachers’ Roundtable Summit in February 2017, I mooted the idea that someone would challenge Ofsted in the courts and that Durand Academy may well be the first. They were already set on that course; now it has happened. This post was written for the TES and was published on the 15th August 2017. Continue reading
The new linear A-level results will soon be announced; starting with linear GCSE English & Mathematics examinations the move towards students memorising large volumes of information, for public examinations, seems inexorable. Continue reading