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An Education Endowment Foundation review also highlights ‘plateauing’ in attainment after secondary transition

We all want reflective students, writes Erin Miller, but our approach in nurturing this skill must be more than a tick-box exercise

Former catch-up adviser and EEF chief also says variation between schools needs to be ‘faced down’

Smartphones in classrooms cause ‘severe loss in focus’ among pupils and fuel ‘hostility’ towards teachers, suggests petition to Scottish Parliament

One trust explains the strategic approach it has taken that is providing ‘green shoots’ of recovery on school attendance

A quarter of secondary teachers surveyed by the EEF report having no training on writing in the past two years

School leaders’ network Schools North East’s manifesto calls on the next government to recognise the impact of long-term poverty on schools

A centralised bank of resources has long been heralded as a potential solution to Australia’s workload problems, but so far this promise has yet to be fully delivered

Proportion of senior leaders predicting cuts to TA spending has risen sharply since last year amid budget struggles, survey finds

LocatED director previously claimed that schools were sitting on surplus land ‘the size of central London’

A new international sustainability diploma shows how Scottish educational reform might play out in classrooms, explains headteacher Ian Munro

If the next government truly wants to grow the country, it should not overlook the dividends that an investment in education pays – and where the money needs to go