Authors

...as chosen by children. This year, TES began a series of weekly pupil-written reviews of books – as well as some teachers’ feedback for good measure. Adi Bloom picks out the 10 that most impressed the classroom critics

Only by banging heads together can the government prevent inequality, the Ofsted chief inspector says

Chief inspector uses his final annual report to warn that one in 10 teachers left the profession in a year – the highest proportion for a decade

Report also warns that secondary heads do not realise that the primary curriculum has changed and still think that pupils’ progress is measured in levels

Schools are improving, but they still do not serve disadvantaged or talented pupils as well as they might

Our most deprived, in-need communities have been forgotten by those with the power to offer help. In many cases, it is only schools that remain to offer support, security and shelter from their often stormy lives. Teachers here teach, but they also act as social worker, police officer, counsellor. They are a guide through the labyrinth of officialdom. Because there is no one else to do it. Adi Bloom spends a week in one of these schools and finds just how desperate the situation is