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January 7, 2017 at 11:12PM I teach many students who stubbornly insist that they revise best simply by re-reading their notes.  I have also known students to ignore their notes altogether and instead revise exclusively by reading the textbook, despite my warnings that the textbook in question does not cover the whole syllabus and/or includes […]

January 7, 2017 at 07:00PM This is part 1 of a series of blogs on my new book, Making Good Progress?: The future of Assessment for Learning. Click here to read the introduction to the series. Giving feedback works. There is an enormous amount of evidence that shows this, much of it summarised in Black

January 7, 2017 at 06:01PM The government’s plan to open new grammar schools is a key policy of Theresa May’s new “shared society”, the education secretary has said. Justine Greening told the Andrew Marr show this morning that her department’s approach to expanding selection in England was an example of the government’s efforts to realise

January 7, 2017 at 01:00PM The government has rejected a bid to open a Jewish free school in London after criticising its plans to dedicate 20 per cent of learning time to faith-based education. The application from Barkai college to open a new five-form entry secondary in north-west London was thrown out by the Department

January 7, 2017 at 01:00PM The Department for Education is recruiting a team of “behavioural insights” experts to aid ministers in their policymaking decisions. The move is aimed at changing the “culture” of the department with psychology specialists applying behavioural science from the start when new policies are developed. The team is also expected to

January 7, 2017 at 11:08AMWriting in 1985, Neil Postman made the interesting observation that of the first fifteen U.S. presidents, many of them could walk down the street without being physically recognised yet they would be instantly identifiable by things they had written or speeches they had delivered. Today the opposite is true. Postman saw

January 6, 2017 at 02:33PM I can understand why you did it. In theory. I understand that you wanted to give me the best education money could buy. I don’t blame you for sending me away to an extremely strict boarding school when I was very young. I think you genuinely thought it was best