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  • Schools Should Not Teach the End of History

    Schooling changes lives. That is the claim. Without having attended school our lives would be different, how different we do not know but, clearly education makes a difference. A liberal… Read more

  • Posters as an Academic Form

    The Oxford English Dictionary defines a poster as: A large printed picture used for decoration, and: A large printed picture, notice, or advertisement displayed in a public place. For those who remember… Read more

  • The Stalinist Libertarianism of Nick Gibb

    On the Radio 4 Today Programme Nick Gibb announced that: “We can’t have two systems,” as a justification for the ‘Academicisation’ programme. He should try living in Greenwich. In this South… Read more

  • Building British Values, Character and Resilience in Every Child

    The recent white paper Educational Excellence Everywhere states that the Government is set on: “Building character and resilience in every child” It continues by stating that: A 21st century education should… Read more

  • Where Did Education, Education, Education, Go Wrong?

    In a speech on 23rd May 2001 Tony Blair made the following pronouncement: Our top priority was, is and always will be education, education, education. To overcome decades of neglect… Read more

  • Progress in Learning

    Greg Ashman’s extremely helpful blog ‘A two-axis model of approaches to learning’ points out that there are different ways of teaching and that these methods can be relevant to different levels of… Read more

  • Independent, Critical Thinkers and Schooling

    ‘We are only puppets, our strings are being pulled by unknown forces.’ Danton’s Death: Buchner The French playwright, Olympe de Gouges, the writer of the ‘Declaration of the Rights of Woman… Read more

  • Sir Michael Wilshaw and his Moans

    Sir Michael Wilshaw is concerned about the teacher ‘brain drain’ as teachers are attracted to work abroad in leading private schools that have set up overseas franchises. He is concerned about… Read more

  • The Rise of the Stupid Teacher and Blogger

    In the Communist Manifesto Marx and Engels describe Capitalism as being a state in which “All that is solid melts into air…” Where new products replace old and new ideas… Read more

  • Teachers, ‘Cheating’ and ‘Selling’ Achievement

    Does your school have a quasi ‘delivery unit’? If you’re not sure what this looks like or might be, a D.U. can be known by its actions. Do you have… Read more

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