Author Archives: Labour Teachers

Is cheating endemic in our schools? This anonymous teacher offers a view: In February this year, a survey of Teach First graduates found that respondents had experienced the pressure, or indeed the command, to cheat during GCSE assessments. In January, more »

This article was originally published by Progress The Department for Education’s vision is for a highly educated society in which opportunity is more equal for children and young people no matter what their background or family circumstances. I recently presented more »

This is a cross-post from Scenes From The Battleground I find much of the contribution from politicians to the education debate in this country utterly pointless. So many political types simply do not realise how the system works or what more »

This article was originally posted on Laura McInerney’s blog Yesterday I explained why inaccurate use of the term “educational inequality” makes me uneasy. But then I started thinking about a gross educational inequality that is hardly ever mentioned, and it made more »

This weekend, former government special adviser Sam Freedman wrote an interesting post about the role of blogging in policy formation. That was triggered by a speech in which Michael Gove mentioned a number of different teacher bloggers, and also mentioned more »

This is a cross-post from Labour Lords Jim Knight on why it’s time to lengthen the learning day not the school day Michael Gove managed to gather plenty of coverage for himself with his speech last Thursday at The Spectator education conference. more »

This blog is cross-posted from Pragmatic Education     ‘Educational inequality is the civil rights issue of our time’ Barack Obama, 2011 Our retention, training, curriculum and assessment aren’t strong enough In 1807, radical journalist William Cobbett used an analogy to more »

Labour education policy should deliberately deliver social mobility for disadvantaged students. 3 ½ ideas that will do this. First the ½ Only a half because it’s not a new idea but one that Labour should publicly and repeatedly support: “Pupil more »

Cross-posted from Robert Hill’s blog. [We’ve recently hosted a number of contributions about what Labour education policy might look like: John Blake’s is here, Emma Hardy’s here, Dave Mingay’s here and Fiona Miller’s here. This post focuses on the specific area of more »

This is a cross-post from the Local School Network. [There are other suggestions on this site for Stephen Twigg from John Blake here, Emma Ann Hardy here and Dave Mingay here.] The Observer newspaper carried a couple of  articles at the weekend about an more »