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GCSE reform: a modest proposal

The pandemic has cast many assumptions about how education could or should unfold into sharp relief. Like many others, I’ve been wondering about ...

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Why we need to read aloud

Baddeley, Alan. “Working memory: Theories, models, and controversies.” Annual review of psychology 63 (2012): 1-29. Bell, Laura C., and Charles A. Perfetti. “Reading skill: Some ...

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How to pay attention

How to pay attention Here is my researchEDHome talk on attention. And, if you want to chase up any of the references they’re ...

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Behaving badly in public: Where do we draw the line?

There’s never any shortage of stupid on social media. Barely an hour goes by without someone saying something breathtakingly foolish, and this feverish ...

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A reading of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped

When my daughters were younger I used to read to them every evening. Over the years we read all the Harry Potter books, ...

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#ProjectParadise: A group reading project

Well. A few days ago I ran a poll on Twitter to find the most popular long poem for a group reading project ...

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How should we decide what knowledge to teach?

How should we decide what knowledge to teach? Last year I wrote two posts on two ways I think we might be getting ...

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Homework in the time of Corona

It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of uncompleted homework. Gabriel Garcia Marquez I’ve never been ...

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Exam season and COVID19: What should we do?

In the current climate, worrying about whether this year’s GCSE and A level exams are going to go ahead as scheduled may seem ...

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The dangers of hierarchy: a recommendation for improving Ofsted inspections

Mistakes in aviation are potentially catastrophic; when we get things wrong in teaching, no one dies. But the same pressures that cause pilots ...

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