The Daily Mail features Nicky Morgan’s speech at the Sutton Trust and Education Endowment Foundation Summit. Children from poor families do worse at school because of the ‘bigotry of low…
Education Secretary to tackle ‘soft bigotry’ of low expectations
…pupils in the classroom. In a speech to a Sutton Trust and Education Endowment Foundation summit, Mrs Morgan said: “Pupils that lag behind their peers should be encouraged to reach…
Science made simple
…for resourceful ways to spend their pupil premium funding. We’ve published nine more reports today, the results of trials we have funded and evaluated. These include the results of Improving…
David Cameron paves way for shake-up of the BBC as licence fee critic John Whittingdale joins all-Tory Cabinet
…London, who will attend “political” sessions when civil servants are not present. The Sutton Trust said half the new Cabinet attended a fee-paying school, compared to 7 per cent of…
Assistance for Assistants
…and secondary schools. Yet they’re a relatively modern classroom phenomenon and the rapid increase in their numbers has changed the way that many classrooms operate. Teaching assistants fulfil a range…
The best ways to work with teaching assistants
Rob Webster writes for the Conversation about a new Education Endowment Foundation report on teaching assistants. Over the last five years, schools in England have been granted an unprecedented level…