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Reflecting on decades of education research, psychologist Peter Blatchford says the hunt for ‘what works’ could be throwing us off track when it comes to improving teaching and learning

With the cost-of-living crisis continuing to bite, four schools share what they’re doing to help local families through the festive period

Politicians suggest we should make early maths more like phonics, but what would that look like in practice? Tes spoke to maths researcher Daniel Ansari to find out

With general agreement now about how to teach reading, attention is shifting to improving writing instruction – but can the research provide a clear solution?

A single interpretation of ‘knowledge’ has come to dominate the curriculum, with ‘destructive’ effects for the humanities, says Robert Eaglestone, who tells Helen Amass how we can redress the balance

Social media-driven ‘copycat’ behaviour has been blamed for recent increases in various mental health and neurodevelopmental conditions. But are children really ‘catching’ syndromes from the content they’re viewing online? Helen Amass investigates