Data, data everywhere…
How much data are schools collecting – and how much do teachers think they should be collecting?
How much data are schools collecting – and how much do teachers think they should be collecting?
How do Ofsted ratings relate to how much data a school collects?
A look at how the results of free schools compare to those of other new schools
New analysis of the School Workforce Census and responses to Teacher Tapp survey questions reveals four reasons why the pay gap emerges between male and female teachers.
Exploring some of the problems with using commercial tests to measure pupil progress
Last year at the Schools NorthEast Annual Summit I was delighted to talk to primary teachers and learn how they had become a high-performing region. Today I had less happy conversation with their secondary colleagues about why they are falling behind at GCSE. As the chart below shows, the North East has always scored poorly [...]
In England, the government has been trying to push schools into raising entries in the so-called EBacc subjects through its accountability metrics: the percentage entering and achieving the EBacc, and Progress 8. This is one reason why subject entries have been changing so much in recent years. However, another reason why they are changing is [...]
A massive 59% of A-Level exams sat in England this year were in reformed subjects which follow the new, linear model of sitting one set of exams at the end of the two-year course. Overall, and perhaps surprisingly, A-Level entries by 18-year-olds in reformed subjects increased by 2.3% in England. This compares to 0.7% in [...]
Last Thursday at the Festival of Education, Sam Sims and I presented new research from our forthcoming book, The Teacher Gap, on the small number of schools that appear to be knowingly running a recruit-burnout-replace staffing model. The talk was written up by Schools Week and you can read the whole story of these teachers [...]