🚨NEW PODCAST🚨
What does the Schools White Paper mean for pupils, teachers and leaders?
@missmc.bsky.social and @fcdwhittaker.bsky.social join me to explore the big ideas and proposed reforms in the White Paper.
Listen here: insideyoured.com
"If reform is to rebuild confidence with families, it must strengthen and not strip away the protections that children and young people depend on."
The Government may think its work is done, but the battle over SEND reforms is only just beginning.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
"AI offered a chance for education to “return to its essence”, [Jack] Ma said. Time spent memorising textbooks could be freed up to cultivate creativity and imagination"
Yes Jack, because you definitely didn't rely on knowledge and expertise to become a billionaire.
🙄
www.scmp.com/tech/article...
Honestly, when these people find out where the ability to 'think critically' comes from, it's going to blow their mind....
"AI offered a chance for education to “return to its essence”, [Jack] Ma said. Time spent memorising textbooks could be freed up to cultivate creativity and imagination"
Yes Jack, because you definitely didn't rely on knowledge and expertise to become a billionaire.
🙄
www.scmp.com/tech/article...
When these school vouchers were first introduced, they were only available to low-income families. Now, every family is eligible.
The result?
"it’s likely a large chunk of the more than 13,000 new [voucher] recipients this school year come from households with incomes of more than $125,000."
Parents in Iowa can use $8,000 of public funding to attend a school of their choice, including private schools.
School voucher advocates, rejoice!
Oh, wait. Most families that use the vouchers at private schools already attended that school beforehand.
🤦
eu.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/e...
In South Korea, the cost of purchasing a school uniform has recently approached 600,000 won (£300) despite an annual price ceiling, leading to calls to scrap uniforms altogether.
www.koreaherald.com/article/1068...
'Large numbers of secondary moderns to return if Farage becomes PM'.
There, fixed it for them.
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
And it's nuggets like this that make me wonder how much political pain / obsfucation could have been avoided over the last 15 years if they'd not called them 'student loans' and just branded them as 'Graduate Contributions' instead.
Anyone serious about fixing this mess will no doubt look at this.
"It’s not surprising that anger has built up.”
David Willetts, who was universities minister when Plan 2 student loans were introduced, does not think the current system can survive.
Important piece by @nicolawoolcock.bsky.social and @georgiamay.bsky.social.
www.thetimes.com/uk/education...
"We’re all neurodiverse; we can accept this because all our brains are different. But it makes a medical diagnosis completely meaningless."
Blockbuster interview with Professor Frith, and hugely significant in the context of the DfE's proposed SEND 'evidence base' for interventions.
If you missed our report last week, this podcast is a great opportunity to catch up with the authors:
I am sure this interview will make a lot of people angry but given Frith's bona fides it's probably incumbent on folks to engage with her constructively.
"We’re all neurodiverse; we can accept this because all our brains are different. But it makes a medical diagnosis completely meaningless."
Blockbuster interview with Professor Frith, and hugely significant in the context of the DfE's proposed SEND 'evidence base' for interventions.
We absolutely need to reduce the appalling exam burden on young people, particularly GCSE students. Link below to my report on how I would do this.
Scrapping coursework and other supervised work is still the only sensible response to GenAI tools such as ChatGPT.
www.edsk.org/publications...
I mean, anyone who genuinely thinks that teachers can stop students cheating if they just "explain the deeper point, that the effort of learning is where the value lies" clearly has never met a teenager.
They're rational actors. Cheating is zero cost and the chance of getting caught is almost zero.
I'm concerned too, and have been for the last 3.5 years.
Can we please stop putting teachers in the firing line by expecting them to catch cheats? Imploring them to "talk to your students about AI before problems arise" is pointless for so many reasons.
All coursework needs to be scrapped. End of.
@adamboxereducation.bsky.social has written some interesting stuff in this area too:
carouselteachlearnlead.substack.com/p/every-stud...
The 27 independent schools that converted into state schools from 2007 to 2016 sometimes struggled to adapt to the demands of the state sector, but they rapidly improved after their conversion.
My new @pepforum.bsky.social report explores what happened to these pioneering schools:
bit.ly/4rM5WgW
27 independent schools have jumped into the state sector since 2007, and these former fee-paying schools are performing well on national tests.
My new report for @pepforum.bsky.social calls for more independent schools to be able to switch sectors.
Find out more here: bit.ly/4rM5WgW
Did you know that over the last two decades, 27 independent schools decided to become state schools instead - either academies or free schools?
My new @pepforum.bsky.social report describes this bizarre but fascinating story.
Read / download the report here: bit.ly/4rM5WgW
After a nice quiet week in education and politics, why not read my new @pepforum.bsky.social report on the amazing story of the 27 independent schools that decided to become state schools.
Why did they switch, and how have they fared in the state sector?
Read / download it here: bit.ly/4rM5WgW
You can find my new report here:
bit.ly/4rM5WgW
Great point. As we say in the report, the gap between these former independent schools and local state schools has been closing, but they are also close to the national average (on SEND, I think they've almost hit the national average). Maybe a few percentage points still left to go on FSM.
🚨NEW PODCAST🚨
Should struggling independent schools be converted into state schools?
Dr Tilly Clough joins me to discuss our new
@pepforum.bsky.social report on the amazing (and, until now, untold) story of the 27 independent schools that switched sectors.
Listen here: insideyoured.com
If you think private schools are elitist then take a look at this:
The private schools that converted into state schools from 2007 to 2016 have become far more representative of their local communities.
Find out more in my new @pepforum.bsky.social report:
bit.ly/4rM5WgW
Debatable, although I welcome any attempt to wipe England's penalty shootout woes from the historical record.
I think we can all agree with Sam that anything which happened before Kylie and Jason released 'Especially for you' is indeed not worth considering.
The 27 independent schools that have converted into state schools sometimes struggled to adapt to the demands of the state sector, but they rapidly improved after their conversion.
My new @pepforum.bsky.social report explores what happened to these pioneering schools: bit.ly/4rM5WgW
