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Replacing national curriculum levels

Posted on March 17, 2014

Life beyond levels? Life after levels? Life without levels?  Lots of teachers, senior leaders and academics have come up with some interesting ideas for what should replace national curriculum levels….

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Seven Myths about Education – out now

Posted on March 9, 2014

My book, Seven Myths about Education, was published this week by Routledge. It was actually first published as an ebook by The Curriculum Centre in June 2013.  There are a couple of new additions to t…

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Teaching knowledge is not indoctrination

Posted on March 2, 2014

Myth 7 of my book is ‘Teaching knowledge is indoctrination’. I found lots of influential educationalists who believed this, but I did also feel that it was not the most pervasive of the myths I identi…

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Seven Myths – the evidence base, part III

Posted on February 23, 2014

In my previous two posts (here and here), I looked at the structure of my book and restated some of the evidence I’d used to make the claim that a certain set of ideas were dominant in English educati…

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Seven Myths: The evidence base, part II

Posted on February 16, 2014

I have noticed that a common response to my book has been a) to deny the existence of the myths I’ve outlined and b) to claim that they are not myths after all. This is not only rather illogical, it’s…

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Seven Myths: The evidence base, part I

Posted on February 7, 2014

In Seven Myths about Education, I make two claims: first, that in English education, a certain set of ideas about education are predominant; second, that these ideas are misguided. Finding the evidenc…

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Nate Silver and E.D. Hirsch

Posted on February 2, 2014

Over Christmas I read Nate Silver’s excellent book The Signal and the Noise. Silver runs the FiveThirtyEight politics blog and became famous for his uncannily accurate predictions of US elections. Bef…

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Ofsted and my book

Posted on January 26, 2014

Andrew Old frequently tells me that the way to get lots of people visiting your blog is to mention Ofsted in the title, so here goes.  If you are an Ofsted-watcher, you might be interested in my book,…

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Why teaching to the test is so bad

Posted on January 19, 2014

This is part three of my summary of Daniel Koretz’s book Measuring Up: What Educational Testing Really Tells Us. Part one, How useful are tests?, is here and part two, Validity and reliability, is her…

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