The run up to a general election often trots out the good, the bad, and the ugly, of education policy. We know that what sells to the voter on the doorstep often doesn’t translate well into the reality of a well-functioning school system; evidence & experience are often trumped by the demands of party ideology …
General Election ’17: An Education Policy Overview Read More »
It is coming back… after the success of ResearchEd York at Huntington School back in 2013, we are delighted to welcome ResearchEd back on Saturday the 9th of July, 2016. We are developing an exciting line up already and the tickets will no doubt prove hot property! Our keynote speaker this year is Baroness Estelle …
Back in May 2014, the first northern ResearchEd event was held in York, at Huntington School. In the interim, ResearchEd has hopped across the pond to New York (still not as good as the proper northern original of course), it has dipped toes in antipodean waters, and is due in Amsterdam and Scandanavia in the …
The rich get rich, the poor get poorer. This biblical aphorism is a universal truism. Whether it is a comment about the recent banking crisis, or an explanation for the phenomenon that the ‘word rich’ gain great advantages in education by the breadth and power of their vocabulary (Geoff Barton first alerted me to …
I look on the NTEN ResearchEd conference at Huntington School yesterday with a glowing pride. Is there a little confirmation bias attending my feelings? Yes. And who the hell cares! It felt great – and that matters! My evidence – nearly three hundred people: talking, smiling, questioning and debating teaching and research evidence. People …
NTEN ResearchEd York – Teachers Doing It For Themselves Read More »
Trust or fear? Carrot or stick? Autonomy or accountability? These dividing lines will feel very familiar to many teachers. Everyone who has been in education for a few years can share horror stories of schools run like prisons of iron-fist accountability, or laissez faire schools with shoddy systems that preach autonomy, but only beget chaos …
Feedback has always been all the rage! In all my years of teaching I think I know instinctively the things that make the difference to learning. Once such tipping points of learning for me has been those small, nearly unremembered, chats with students about their work. The subtle hint to change course; the exasperated plea …
