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‘Flexible’ arrangements in social work bill may endanger children | Letters

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

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Further problems with the ‘thinking hard’ proxy for learning

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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