“But they might not be the mathematicians that Rishi Sunak is hoping for in the classroom”, suggests GB News’ Camilla Tominey.
The necessary evaluations involve many voices and inevitably take time. Although this can be frustrating, it means outcomes are much more resistant to influence from groups and individuals with extreme agendas and ideologies.
The twenty-first article in a new series on ConHome about how government might be made smaller, taxpayers better off and and society stronger – through strong families, better schools and good jobs.
By holding firm, the Government should make clear to striking teachers it is not only their own time they are wasting but that of a generation of pupils who have already lost too much.
To our opponents, the term “fronted adverbial” is the gift that keeps on giving. No-one without a degree in linguistics knows what it means.
The Department of Education confirmed GCSEs and A Levels will go ahead in England for 2021, albeit with measures to help students affected by Covid.
Mark Woolhouse, who is a member of SAGE, has suggested that children do not transmit the virus in the same way as adults.
Allowing alternative organisations at hearing would mean levelling up the quality of life for workers.
We recommend the endowment of a independent research outfit similar to that what works to find how to improve the attainment of disadvantaged children.
Teaching children to spell is not an act of cruelty – they have a large smiles on their faces when they get something right.
Rather than allowing the greatest opportunity for each individual to excel, the educational establishment want to hold them back – in the interests of “levelling attainment”.
The Education Endowment Foundation is not impartial. It was an error to set it up and it should receive no more public money. Others are better suited to the challenge.
Setting or streaming tends to benefit high-attaining pupils, but this can be to the detriment of lower-attaining learners.
If this more realistic approach to what we can reasonably expect can be applied to more aspects of workload and accountability, we may yet turn the tide of teachers leaving our schools.