…compared with 33% pupils in the most affluent families. The Family Affluence scale uses a set of questions about family resources – such as computer and car ownership, and frequency…
Private tuition booms despite recession
…data from 2,739 school children aged 11-16 in England and Wales. Children completed self-completion questionnaires in interviewer-supervised classroom sessions between January 23rd and April 15th 2011. Data have been weighted…
Sutton Trust US Summer School Launched At Yale
…Fulbright Commission, said: “We are delighted to support the Sutton Trust’s new US summer school. At Fulbright, we believe study abroad has the power to change lives and countries –…
Pupil premium money will have limited impact on poorer pupils, teacher survey suggests.
…proportions of teachers indicated that their school uses informal methods of evaluating approaches and programmes. These include trial-and-error approaches and learning from the experiences of other schools. While a large…
Global Education Rankings Can Be Misleading
…report concludes that there are five countries or territories that generally perform better than England in all the tables: Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. On PISA, Belgium,…
Improvements in exam results are the best way to evaluate teachers
…changes will be no more effective than what went before.” The report notes that evaluations are most effective when value added scores are combined with other classroom measures, such as…