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The evidence on setting and streaming by ability is limited but points to it having a negative impact on lower-attaining pupils – so why do most English schools still use it? John Morgan investigates

Building materials installed more than 70 years ago pose major health risks to school staff and potentially even pupils – yet efforts to remove them are thin on the ground, as John Morgan uncovers

Three years after the introduction of the DfE’s controversial test for four-year-olds, John Morgan finds out what, if anything, the Reception Baseline Assessment has taught us about assessing early progress

Politicians are increasingly keen to lift education approaches from countries seen to be performing well. But can teachers trust that such imports will work in their classroom?

The London Challenge set out to transform schooling in the capital, but how successful was it? Twenty years on, John Morgan seeks to find out

Critics argue that an overloaded primary curriculum is imposing unsustainable workload on teachers. But is curriculum size really to blame? John Morgan investigates