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January 3, 2017 at 06:51AM A Child Sexual Exploitation lead has told BBC 5 live that parents need to be more intrusive on their children’s online activity. This comes after the release of a web video which tells the story of how teenager Kayleigh Haywood was groomed online by a stranger and went on to

January 3, 2017 at 06:41AMTesting, testing, 1 2 3! Well, we’re one day into the first day of school in 2017 and it’s only just dawned on me that I’ve signed up for the #WeeklyBlogChallenge17. As I consider myself to be a fairly regular blogger I think I’ll use this as a random mini-thought diary. Fascinating,

January 3, 2017 at 05:30AM In February, my second book is going to be published by Oxford University Press. It’s called Making Good Progress?: The future of Assessment for Learning.  It is the assessment follow-up to my first book, Seven Myths about Education, which was about education more generally. In Seven Myths about Education, I

January 3, 2017 at 04:51AMI really do understand why people get so frustrated by the idea that there exists a never-ending conflicts between two broad philosophies of education, namely ‘traditionalism’ and ‘progressivism’. Some – perhaps rightly – believe that this can distract us from the day-to-day task of teaching children. Others – almost certainly correctly

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January 3, 2017 at 01:39AM Fraudsters posing as government officials are contacting schools in attempts to hold important computer files to ransom, police have said. Action Fraud has issued an alert following “numerous reports” of attempts to inflict ‘ransomware’ – which encrypts important files until a ransom is paid – on school computer systems using