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The Key to Success: Deliberate Practice or our Genes?

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Wayne Rooney, aged 16, scoring an iconic goal against Arsenal. Genius derived from genes? Or does practice make perfect? Most young boys grow up in Liverpool playing football and little else. I …

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It will be the largest new study of its kind: a £4.6m investment by @UKRI_News

We will investigate education & career outcomes to equalise opportunities.

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This sounds incredibly useful

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More on why exposure to 'book language' matters

Fiction is an important source of info about complex emotions and "long-term language experience, and fiction reading, in particular, supports emotion concepts through exposure to these emotions in context" 📚📚📚 https://twitter.com/mcmacdonald/status/1384914779995877389

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Alex Quigley

Alex Quigley

I write this blog in a personal capacity.

After fifteen years in the classroom, I now support the cause of education from the other side the school gates. For most of the week I work for the EEF, as National Content Manager, supporting teachers and school leaders to access research evidence.

Additionally, I write edubooks and offer consultancy. Also, 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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