It's not uncommon to hear schools express a view that the attainment of their intake is systematically over estimated or 'inflated' in some way. Schools are not accusing another of cheating; simply that high stakes accountability pushes teachers to ensure children achieve the best result possible. And where a feeder school outperforms expectations for an [...]
This evening we launch Education Datalab with a report ‘Seven things you might not know about our schools'. Rich data on our schools has been available for over a decade now but, as we hope this report shows, there is still much we can learn. Every piece of analysis we show in this report is [...]
Education Datalab brings together a group of expert researchers who all believe we can improve education policy by analysing large datasets. In this week of our launch I’ll explain what we hope to achieve. This is something I’ve had to think a lot about these past few weeks. I went on leave from my academic [...]
FFT research paper number five explored how the attainment and the value added scores of children varies by the amount of time which they have been eligible for free school meals. Download the report here [PDF].
