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BERA Blog Special Issues: General Election 2017
For the last ten years, researchers in the Centre for Equity in Education have been asking why, despite continuous reforms, the most vulnerable children and young people in the English school...
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Kirstin Kerr/ Mel Ainscow
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Alice Bradbury
BERA Blog Special Issues: General Election 2017
The Matthew effect is an expression that has been coined to summarise the parable of the talents found in Matthew’s gospel (Matthew 25:14-30), which suggests that the rich get richer while the...
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Chris Rolph
The Education Select Committee has concluded its review of assessment systems in Primary schools in England, with a brief to pay particular regard to changes rolled out in 2016. The report...
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Harvey Goldstein
It’s never been a safer time to be a child, in statistical terms, yet the perception is often very different. One reason for this is that people aren’t always very clear about the function of...
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Sandra Leaton Gray
Education policy studies has benefited greatly from work that interplays documents and interviews, where meanings and explanations are generated from the critical deployment of conceptual tools....
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Helen Gunter
As part of a radical reform of educational and health support for young people (YP) with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities, the Code of Practice (DfE & DH, 2015) now advocates the use of...
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Samuel Kelly
This article argues that the valid pursuit of Mastery style Maths teaching could lead to deeper understanding in children and is a worthy goal. However, it will not be achieved fully without...
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Robert Newell
In September 2016, the Women and Equalities Committee reported on the high level of sexual violence routinely experienced by young women in schools and the need for urgent action. The report...
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Vanita Sundaram
Ever worked with a teacher trainee mentor who is not up for it? Or, even worse, is not up to it? They might be the colleague with a light timetable that year, or who is looking for professional...
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Ruth Magee
The fear of high unemployment resulting from the increasing encroachment of digital technologies in people’s working lives is a topical debate. One group of workers that may be immune to this...
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Sai Loo
“ Teaching is the one profession that creates all other professions” According to Nelson Mandela “Education is the most powerful weapon which we can use to change the world” and Popik...
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Christine Challen