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Opening up our top comprehensives

…or an often ill-defined definition of religiosity in the case of faith schools, where ballots among members of a faith would be less arbitrary. Doing nothing should not be an…

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Jeremy Hodgen: We need maths to age 18 now

case for the value and relevance of mathematics. The study we publish today suggests that focusing on the “simple maths in complex settings” that is needed at work is one…

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Parent power for all

…the capital, there is undoubtedly also a case that ‘unlucky’ children lose out on access to many of the most successful schools because they are born into low or middle…

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White noise

…teaching, and the pedagogical input from Lead schools is in many cases poor. Many will argue. Arguments concerning redistributing resources from the more successful to the less so will I…

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Why Sound Foundations matter to social mobility

…base. It is not looking to reinvent the wheel, indeed in many cases it points towards existing practice guidance. It is clear that implementing quality provision has financial implications including…

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Ballots and Banding

…example – can work well. In that borough, ten schools including academies and free schools, use banding. But there is a case for children having access to a single banding…