Government to rebroker Manchester free schools founded by charity boss
Two free schools in Greater Manchester will be re-brokered to new multi-academy trusts after one was placed into special measures on its first inspection and the second given a financial notice to improve. The Collective Spirit free school in Oldham, which opened in...
Andy McNab says joyless education is damaging poor children's literacy
Bravo Two Zero author, who didn’t learn to read until he was 16, says his experience working in schools shows that a box-ticking approach to tuition inhibits reading skills of the less privilegedGovernment literacy policy that emphasises grammar over enjoyment is...
Turning a tanker – in a perfect storm.
School improvement is a complicated business. And improving a large comprehensive is almost a totally different process to establishing a new school (I’ve done both). A high proportion of the mega-success stories we hear about are from new schools or schools that...
British school children could be guinea pigs for controversial new tests despite other nations rejecting them
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2017/01/31/british-school-children-could-guinea-pigs-controversial-new/
Term-time holiday ban would criminalise parents, supreme court told
But government lawyers argue parents should not be allowed to take children from school ‘when the sun is out’ Parents will be criminalised on an unprecedented scale if judges reverse an earlier ruling that overturned a ban on term-time holidays, the supreme court has...
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