A couple of weeks ago there was a controversy about when pupils should start school. A group of academics sent a letter to the Telegraph arguing that ‘an ever-earlier start to formal learning’ could only cause ‘profound damage to the self-image and learning dispositions of a generation of children.’ In the Telegraph, Peter Tait, the… Read more »
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…superb. Briefly, Hirsch shows some of the problems with one of the most-tested issues in education – class sizes. He shows that a very methodologically robust study in Tennessee demonstrated…
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…example, he noted that there have only been 2 robust surveys of academies in the UK, compared to hundreds in the US on charters, and that the Gates Foundation spent…
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