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School leaders will have had sleepless nights worrying about the league tables out today – but instead of allowing them to close down conversations about schools, we should use them to open up broader discussion, writes ASCL leader Geoff Barton

The children’s commissioner is right – we need to offer digital literacy lessons to help our students navigate the social media minefield, writes one union leader

With a new education secretary in place, now is the time to restart the relationship between teachers and the government

We must resist the mechanistic, spoon-feeding approach to learning that deskills pupils and devalues teachers. This new year education has never mattered more – our job is to help our students outpace the robots, writes one heads’ leader

The new ASCL general secretary misses school-life every day – but especially the joy of working with young people at this time of year

The government’s strategy displays a new determination to bring coherence to a broken system – and this is to be admired, writes one heads’ leader