Every time I read Bodil’s threads I come out feeling smarter and better informed.
Oracy is downstream of other stuff - knowledge, vocabulary, effective questioning, classroom culture.
Sounds like the Francis Review was a waste of time and Powell is doing what she wants regardless. Great. All the delays, drip feeding of changes and lack of coherence is, as a school leader, a complete headache.
This is correct. Germany lost in the summer of 1940, they just didn’t know it yet.
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This episode, Signal 30, probably more than any TV episode I’ve seen, has the tenor and depth of a great mid century short story. Really powerful and haunting poetry found in the mundanity of a man’s life. But also this, scene which is so funny I rewound it first watch
You can tell when someone spends too much time on the internet. American DoorDash discourse has entered the chat.
"People are going to come for me on this..."
Disability advocate Maddy Alexander-Grout tells @TomSwarbrick1 that people with ADHD need PIP to afford takeaways.
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This is probably the single greatest piece of journalism I have consumed in my lifetime.
A lesbian bar in Greenfield eased its stringent mask mandate, a decision that has splintered the queer community in the city and beyond. trib.al/FyZjBWs
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Correct, the left needs to admit that Gove's school reforms worked and @daisychristo has written a brilliant piece for @ArguablyMag on that today. arguably.uk/p/labour-shouldn…
There's a lot of evidence now on Gove/Cummings DfE-era reforms, where you have to say that they were right, & the unions/the Left/"the Blob" were wrong.
Cameron-Osborne-Clegg was a calamitous era. The macro-economic strategy sowed the seeds of most of the problems we face today (low investment, low-productivity, cheap labour Deliveroo economy with a pumped housing market & crap/creaking public realm, over-exposed to inflationary/deglobalisation era).
But on schooling, the results speak for themselves (while also demonstrating that education isn't a panacea for positive growth/generational outcomes?)
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Breakup of the UK under the first Catholic Prime Minister
The leaders of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will gather on Monday to sign a deal designed to kick-start the break-up of the United Kingdom, The Telegraph can disclose.
🔗: telegraph.co.uk/politics/202…
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The best evidence that the fads might be causing this problem is that one of the few countries to escape the general fall in scores is England - also one of the few countries to explicitly reject the fads and take a different approach.
Contrast with Scotland - a similar country which had basically the same PISA scores as England in 2012.
Since then the two countries took very different educational approaches and Scottish students are now about a year behind English ones in maths & science (and behind by a smaller amount in reading).
I wrote about this in 2013, but it's even more stark now.
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@LordBlunkett with the literacy hour and numeracy hour, LibDem David Laws with Progress 8 and the National Funding Formula for Schools, and yes, @michaelgove's curriculum and assessment reforms and @NickGibbUK with phonics. 2/3
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All three parties in England share responsibility for our education success. Labour's Jim Callaghan first PM to give a speech on education, Conservative Ken Baker with the knowledge rich curriculum, and GCSEs not O levels/CSEs, Labour's @Andrew_Adonis with academies and 1/3
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Euro edu social media is absolutely melting down today. Disaster, apocalypse, catastrophe, PISA shock.
"What darkness it is to read PISA 2025."
"Always count on the English to twist the knife in the wound."
Also - handwriting. All over that
ResearchED is fun as always. Coaching for adaptive expertise super helpful - really good framework to use in conversations. Thanks @SCottinghatt and co