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Hattie, Hymer, Tomsett, Cameron and All that Jazz
It’s great to be able to blog about how I’ve shared the stage with John Hattie, John Tomsett, Barry Hymer and the real David Cameron; more rhetoric than reality. Speaking at the same conference isn’t quite the same as sharing the stage but since I spoke in the same room I thought a bit of exaggeration for effect might be allowed. Continue reading
It’s the High Stakes Accountability Not the Testing
Parents keeping their children at home, tests leaked on the Department for Education website and talk of ever increasing stress amongst young children; this testing season has been more fraught than most. Add primary school teachers being uncertain about the standards expected, some standards are unknown with others given too late, and testing a multi-year curriculum which has only been taught for one year; unsurprisingly things are getting fraught.
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If the White Paper Didn’t Exist What Would You Do? Do It Anyway
This title is taken from a Tom Sherrington tweet; just replace “the White Paper” with “Ofsted” to get the original. The White Paper has caused disquiet in quite a few places and a great deal of consternation in others. It lays out the path which ministers, though by no means all of their back benchers, would like to travel in educational terms during this Parliament. Continue reading
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