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  • Modern Education vs Old Education

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  • Classroom Talk, Some Thoughts on the EEF Report…

    I think the three ‘Rs’ of Reading wRiting and aRithmetic should be expanded to the four Rs and include Rhetoric or oRacy, in other words: talk should be an essential core component of a good education. Schools should do their utmost to ensure children read well, write well, do their sums well and talk well. Read more

  • You Can’t Teach the Best That Has Been Thought and Said

    Here are the slides in PDF format from my talk at the Telegraph Festival of Education at Wellington College on 22nd June 2017: You Can’t Teach The Best That Has Been Thought and Said Read more

  • The Conversational Classroom

    Here are the slides in PDF format from my talk at ResearchEd Rugby on July 1st 2017: The Conversational Classroom #rEDRugby Read more

  • Spielman’s OFSTED Game Changer: The Importance of the Curriculum.

    Perhaps I had a bit of sunstroke but it seemed to me that what the new OFSTED supremo, Amanda Spielman had to say was a ‘game’ changer. In her gloriously uplifting speech at the, equally gloriously uplifting, Wellington Festival of Education she said that: One of the areas that I think we sometimes lose sight Read more

  • Academic Education For All

    German players seemed to have more to draw on as people than English counterparts; greater all round resources that helped them navigate tournaments and pressure points  Jonathan Northcroft: interview with Frank Lampard, Sunday Times, May 28th 2017 In our great debates about education: vocational vs grammar, 21st Century skills for the jobs that don’t yet Read more