January 11, 2017 at 10:09PM A teacher taped a child’s hands and ankles to his desk and chair to stop him fidgeting, a misconduct hearing has been told. Primary school teacher Matthew Brown, 38, is also accused of sticky-taping one girl’s hand to a rugby ball, although he claims this was an accident. Brown was […]

January 11, 2017 at 07:35PM In my last post I outlined my concerns with the idea of ‘thinking hard’ being a good proxy for learning. Briefly, thinking hard about a problem appears to be an inefficient way to alter long-term memory structures. This means that it’s perfectly possible to struggle with a difficult exercise, successfully complete it,

January 11, 2017 at 06:48PM The east of England has the highest proportion of coasting primary schools, while London and the north east have the lowest, new government figures have revealed today. Updated key stage 2 data released this morning shows that 6 per cent of primary schools in the eastern region are defined as

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January 11, 2017 at 04:21AM Your excellent summary (What this year could hold for public services, 4 January) had much useful analysis on how the NHS and other state services may be “brought to the brink”. Your readers may also wish to know that the House of Commons is currently considering a bill that will remove

January 11, 2017 at 03:31AM Because learning is invisible, we can only hope to measure whether students are making progress by observing proxies. Most people now seem to agree that certain activities which routinely take place in lessons are, in the words of Robert Coe, ‘poor proxies for learning’. Rob has suggested that a better

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