BBC Home Editor Mark Easton looks at what the Sutton Trust/EEF toolkit tells us about evidence in education.

School uniforms instil discipline and improve performance. Streaming pupils gets better results. Teaching assistants take the strain off hard-working teachers and help children learn. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.

New government-commissioned research into “what works” suggests many of the approaches we think make a difference are either a waste of money or may make matters worse.

Read his full piece here.