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    ‘We Did Vocabulary Last Year’

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Why Sir Michael Wilshaw is Wrong about More National Tests

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“For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.” H.L. Mencken In the most recent annual review conducted by OFSTED, Michael Wilshaw has once more come out …

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‘School leaders tell us that there is little time left in the day for anything other than dealing with symptomatic cases, and navigating the complexities of the public health system’: my comments on behalf of ⁦@ASCL_UK⁩ ⁦@SchoolsWeek⁩ https://schoolsweek.co.uk/proportion-of-schools-not-fully-open-due-to-covid-quadruples-in-a-week/

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A Latin equivalent of ‘between a rock and a hard place’ was ‘a fronte praecipitium a tergo lupi’—literally ‘a precipice in front, wolves behind’.

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Lovely etymology of ‘exorbitant’, along with a few additional treats, from @susie_dent

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Alex Quigley

Alex Quigley

I am National Content Manager at the EEF, supporting teachers to access research evidence. After over fifteen years in the classroom, I now support from outside the school gates.

I write edubooks and I am very lucky to have a column for both TES and Teach Secondary magazine.

Alex Quigley

I am National Content Manager at the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF), after fifteen years as an English teacher and school leader. The focus of my work is supporting school improvement and making research  evidence accessible and useable for teachers and school leaders.

I write books for Routledge, including the bestseller, ‘Closing the Vocabulary Gap’. Currently, I am a columnist for both TES and Teach Secondary magazine. I am a ResearchED Trustee & a member of the Chartered College of Teaching Impact Journal board.

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