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In my previous post I spoke about the different types of evidence used in education. Here is a concrete example of what I mean. The Educational Endowment Fund have been set up to review the effectiven…

Stephen Twigg’s announcement of his plans for an Office of Educational Improvement has got a lot of people talking, including me, here. On Lib Dem Voice, Stephen Tall  welcomed the proposal, arguing t…

Stephen Twigg has made an important speech stating that the problem in the English education system is that there is too much dogma and not enough evidence. Certainly there is some truth in that. I pe…

In last week’s TES, on the contents page there was a little ad for an article in the next edition. It said: A glimpse of the future – Some academies and free schools are abandoning the traditional mod…

Take a look at this piece of work. This is a level 3c piece of work, taken from an Ofsted report. You can see the rest of it on page 19 of this document. From my experience of teaching English in seco…

In my last post I spoke about how a lot of classroom activities and projects don’t work because they distract pupils from the real content you are trying to teach them about. Most of the examples I sp…

One of the most wonderful educational resources I have found on the internet is the archive of the journal American Educator. This is the journal of the American Federation of Teachers, America’s seco…

In my last post, I argued that we should publish as much information about schools as possible so parents can use it to create their own league tables of what they find valuable. I also argued that me…

In my last post, I blogged about how league tables are neither the problem nor the solution. They do have some value, however. Teachers will tell you they are flawed, and we are right to do so. But th…