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James Bowen
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‘The primary interim writing assessment framework belongs in the shredder’
The DfE needs to act to change the way writing is assessed at primary, particularly for the sake of dyslexic children. Here’s what it needs to do, says one teachers’ leader
23 February 2017
‘It’s time we gave the early years teachers the status, funding and tools they deserve’
Early intervention is key when it comes to tackling the disadvantage gap, writes one teachers’ leader
16 February 2017
‘How can a school be judged “good” by Ofsted but “coasting” by the DfE, and face intervention from an RSC?’
Our accountability system is so incoherent that schools can easily lose track of who they are accountable to and for what, writes one teachers’ leader
8 February 2017
School autonomy? With Spag and phonics tests, the government has almost complete controls over classrooms
Ministers may claim that schools have been freed from the shackles of central control, but they haven’t – Westminster still has all the levers of power it needs
1 February 2017
‘For the sake of American schools, let’s hope Trump didn’t ask Gove for advice on education reform’
After Friday’s inauguration, writes one union leader, the US probably has enough problems to deal with...
19 January 2017
‘Contextual value added might not be the holy grail when it comes to holding schools to account’
Rather than trying to find the perfect measurement of progress, we need a system where pupil performance data is seen as only one individual part of a much larger picture, writes the director of middle leaders’ union NAHT Edge
9 January 2017