If someone asked you whether you’d like to teach smaller classes or teach bigger classes, with more PPA time and/or a higher salary, what would you say? Would it matter to the quality of teaching the pupils received and the outcomes they achieved?
The headline news is that England remains in a group of schools where the outcomes measured by PISA are good. People might look to extract far reaching conclusions, for or against this or that policy, from minor changes in scores or positions; statistically these are likely to matter little. We’re good, not great, and stuck.
With the longest darkest night of the year just a month away; staff tired with loads to do in what is the usual mad busy Christmas Term, it is all too easy to become a bit negative. Here are three reasons to be cheerful: Justine, Greening, Alison Peacock and Amanda Spielman.