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‘I salute the teachers, TAs and librarians who inspire a love of reading in children for whom books are alien’
Too often those who evangelise about reading can seem too alarmingly evangelical to a child from a background without books, writes the ASCL leader
7 December 2017
‘The public has faith in teachers - teachers must have faith in themselves’
Teachers and school leaders must take the support the public places in us and use it to make a case to government for the education reforms and funding that we know the country needs
30 November 2017
‘Deciding against major investment in schools points to an uninspiring vision of post-Brexit Britain’
It’s the education system we create now that will be pivotal to the success of our country post-Brexit – and we can’t create it without funding, writes one teachers’ leader
23 November 2017
‘We are the “word-rich” and it’s up to us to help empower the “word-poor”...’
...and forcing those who don’t make the grade at GCSE English to endlessly retake it at college is not the way to go about it, writes the ASCL general secretary
16 November 2017
‘Off-rolling is unethical, inappropriate and beyond repugnant - the consequences are devastating’
A year ago, this headteachers’ leader had never heard of ‘off-rolling’ – but now, he writes, you can barely escape it. It’s a process which is hugely damaging for our most vulnerable students
8 November 2017
‘We must reward great teachers - and stop pushing them out of the classroom’
Too often, we take good teachers and expect them to teach less and manage more, writes ASCL leader Geoff Barton
2 November 2017
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