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Teaching matters more than setting

…not subliminally to suggest to children that no amount of effort will change your academic prospects. Setting, delivered in an inflexible way with little movement between groupings, is the death…

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Bacc to the future

…schools will be judged for the first time not on the proportion gaining five good GCSEs, but on the more complex Progress 8 measure (as well as English and Maths…

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A Fair Start? The costs of an unfair system 

…families demanding change. Yet this revolution is yet to materialise, as politicians urge everyone back to the watercooler and suggest those working from home are on their pelotons rather than…