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Award-winning journalism for schools, including news, analysis, and the latest education research.
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BREAKING: Teachers have been offered a pay rise of 4% next year, with the DfE announcing additional funding of £615 million towards the increase for schools.
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To school staff everywhere this morning – whether your school is opening more widely or not – good luck. You’re doing amazing work in the most extraordinary of circumstances. We’re with you all the way.
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BREAKING: Government #Uturn means both A levels and GCSEs will be awarded based on teacher-assessed grades. Students will receive whichever is higher: CAGs or moderated grades. #alevels2020 #GCSE2020.
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All schools and colleges in England will be supplied with period products that will available to students for free from Monday, as part of a @educationgovuk scheme to tackle #periodpoverty.
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'I know how hard it is," says First Lady. "I am teaching hybrid this semester myself. And I have to tell you, you know the one thing I love about educators is that we all help one another."
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The proportion of A level grades at grade A and above has seen a rise at private schools this year more than double any type of state school, @Ofqual data reveals. #AlevelResults #alevels2020
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BREAKING. Risk would be halved if return to school delayed by a fortnight, 'Independent SAGE' committee concludes
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A head teacher has found a way of showing new pupils around his school during the lockdown by recreating it brick for brick on the game Minecraft.
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Parents heap praise on 'invaluable' teachers and 'amazing' schools for their efforts during the pandemic - in a backlash against @GavinWilliamson call for them to report schools to @Ofstednews over remote learning provision
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‘Teachers are hugely important in helping to protect students from bullies, and also to try to help the students who are bullying to understand why that’s unacceptable in a school environment or outside a school environment,’ says @ChelseaClinton
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BREAKING: Experienced teachers are to get a 5% pay award in 2022-23 and teacher starting salaries will see an 8.9% uplift in September this year, reaching £28,000, @educationgovuk has announced.
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"I don’t want people to perpetuate the lie, and it is a lie, that social distancing [in schools] is possible, it just isn’t,” says @Miss_Snuffy
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Legal campaigners @GoodLawProject prepare Judicial review case against @ofqual after receiving a deluge of examples of students impacted by the #alevelresults controversy
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'Enabling trans-identified children to use toilets for the opposite sex is possibly indirect discrimination against other children,' writes lawyer @RebeccaMKBull, as she calls for official guidance on how schools should support trans-identified children.
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The new website, Mentally Healthy Schools, is set to be launched by the Duchess of Cambridge today and will host more than 1,500 online teaching resources on student mental health
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It's "nothing short of disgraceful" that @GavinWilliamson chose today to "threaten" schools on remote learning, according to @PaulWhiteman6
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A reminder for teachers of just how much the work they do matters. What a lovely moment to take the profession into the run-up to Christmas in one of its hardest ever terms.
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Larry the Downing Street cat is the only Cabinet 'member' who seems to know what his job is and does it well. The same can't be said for the education secretary, says Mel Tropman.
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NHS staff have called for schools to remain closed until widespread testing for Covid-19 is in place.
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The books on display behind @BorisJohnson during his speech at an East Midlands school today suggest the librarian, or perhaps a disgruntled English teacher, might have taken their chance to have a say, writes @tweetsbyames
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Comedian @russellhoward praises teachers and says they have one of the hardest jobs in the country
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When you head to your door or window to #ClapForCarers at 8pm this evening, please make sure you keep the nation's teachers and education staff in mind #clapforourcarers #StayHome
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Exposure to music enhances pupils perceptual, language and literacy skills, and also impacts on their intellectual, social and personal development – we must not let it be pushed out of our classrooms'
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Education secretary @GavinWilliamson now faces a united alliance of heads, classroom teachers and support staff, all opposed to his 'untenable' 'shambolic' plan to get most schools in the country open to pupils next week - 'a recipe for chaos and danger'
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Teaching children technical grammatical terms such as “subjunctive” or “subordinate clause” does nothing at all to improve their writing ability, says research
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As GCSE and A-level exam results days loom, @matilda__martin reflects on the journey these cohorts have faced to reach the big day over the past four years – and asks leaders if a return to 2019 standards is fair.
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The Duchess of Cambridge says 'a massive thank you to teachers across the country' in a series of video calls with school staff – and urges teachers to focus on their wellbeing.
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Teaching assistants 'kept schools open': the 'invaluable' work of TAs in lockdown has ranged from welfare checks to phone calls home, from cleaning duties to delivering free school meals, research shows.
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'We all owe teachers a huge debt of gratitude,' says the Prince of Wales in a video message of support for school staff.
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It is "vital that we support teachers with their own wellbeing so that they can provide the best level of care for all children in their schools and communities in which they work,” says Duchess of Cambridge
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'Children need to be surrounded by books and parents need to be supportive to show how this is best achieved. Reading for pleasure is the ultimate goal' .
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BREAKING The government has announced it will be postponing introducing its controversial baseline assessment for four-and five-year-olds until 2021.
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'Biggest-ever' literacy study in UK of more than a million children shows reading for pleasure has a direct bearing on attainment - but not enough are doing it:
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Replacing marking with direct feedback in the classroom not only reduces workload for teachers - it improves pupil outcomes too, according to research by the @EdDevTrust for @educationgovuk
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Baroness Hale tells Association of State Girls’ Schools, ‘let’s hear it for the girly swots’ as she opens their leadership conference.
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The BBC is planning to provide more educational TV programmes to cater for pupils who are at home during the coronavirus pandemic.
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'Why did we think it a good idea to link a child’s results in exams to the performance of the teacher, headteacher and school?' @RealGeoffBarton asks
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DfE's pledge today for 7000 air purifiers is 'totally inadequate' when there are more than 300,000 classrooms, says @MaryBoustedNEU
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'If this election result means one thing for education, it's that plans for new grammar schools are dead'
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'We must use the power of sport, play, and physical education to build the foundations of a healthy and happy life'
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Head's letter to parents encourages those criticising online lessons to "sign up for teacher training at their earliest convenience".
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'Anyone who works in or with schools knows that they are about intangible things that aren’t easily measured – real learning, relationships, kindness and courtesy' @RealGeoffBarton
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BREAKING: Teacher-assessed grades will now be used for A levels and GCSEs in Wales.
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When did we begin to accept that politicians knew better than teachers? Why did we concede control quite so easily? When – and why - did we lose our professional self-confidence, and how do we get it back? @RealGeoffBarton writes
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'Primary school teachers are just not valued nearly enough; they're not paid enough; they do a most important job when the brain is at its most plastic;' says @ProfRWinston
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The key to improving literacy doesn't lie in lessons – we need to develop a reading culture at school and at home, says one expert
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How do you make your school a happier place? Easy, says one head: start by focusing on the wellbeing of your teachers
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'Teaching needs to take better care of its staff. Nobody should be suffering with poor mental health because of their work.'
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Every day we put 25 children in a small room, engage them in activities they didn’t choose, sit them with people they didn't choose to be with. that’s quite demanding, says Bill Rogers
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'I can tell you right now, from where I stand, with all my experience, the real superheroes are teachers – they’re the ones that change the world,' says @RealHughJackman
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Teaching assistants were key in allowing schools to keep running during the winter lockdown and are the ‘unsung heroes’ of the pandemic, researchers have said.
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All London primary schools will now only provide face-to-face education for vulnerable and key worker children in yet another government u-turn. London boroughs had lobbied hard for the decision since Wednesday.
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BREAKING @NAHTnews beginning a legal process to try and challenge @educationgovuk's position over school closures.
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'If I had my way, teachers would be paid more than doctors. I’d make them the highest-paid professionals, the most valued members of society': @LeeChildReacher for education secretary, anyone?.
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Reading is the best way – the only way – to start the journey towards closing the attainment gap, writes one former headteacher
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There'll be no 'going back to normal' when this is all over, writes @RealGeoffBarton – so our accountability systems will need to take a backseat as #education goes through a period of national rebirth.
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86% of school leaders found pupils suffered from panic attacks over #GCSEs – while 74% found it had led to depression and another 64% said it had led to pupils self-harming #gcseresultsday2018
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Given @GavinWilliamson failure to apologise this week for 'last-minute' decisions on schools policy during the pandemic, we thought it might be useful to put to together one handy thread of every U-turn from the @educationgovuk since April last year(1/43)🤓
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Free books will be made available to pupils via @OakNational during the current national lockdown, thanks to a link up with The National Literacy Trust
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Begin vaccinating teachers as soon as term starts and move learning online for most pupils @MaryBoustedNEU & @cyclingkev tell @BorisJohnson
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'Here’s an idea… What if every new secretary of state were to spend a week working in a school at the start of their term in office?' @JamesJkbowen .
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Breaking. Teachers are to receive a 3.1 per cent pay rise following their 'vital contribution' during the coronavirus outbreak, the chancellor will say today
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In order for learning to stick, pupils need to remember what we teach them, says @EnserMark. Here are some activities to refresh their memories.
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Most adults believe PE is equivalent in importance to English, maths and science
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. @AngelaRayner: We will end the 'spiralling cost of school uniforms' which forces parents into debt and leaves children often wearing clothes that don’t fit #LabourConference2019
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"Schools need to create a 'culture of kindness' to help children succeed in the face of adversity".
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Jarlath O'Brien asks why everyone is suddenly so concerned about children being out of school when thousands of SEND children have been in this situation for years before the pandemic .
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The biggest pressure that teachers face is a 'lack of respect', the prime minister says.
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Schools now have to dedicate so much time to pastoral support – to fill in the gaps left by the loss of wider child support services – that it is undermining efforts to improve teaching quality, a former DfE adviser has warned.
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Unfair to increase risk for teachers sharing "rooms and equipment with many people, from many households, again and again", says nurse in open letter to @MattHancock. "Teachers have already tragically died from the virus. We do not want to risk any more."
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BREAKING: Wales moves secondary schools and colleges to online learning from Monday. More to follow.
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GCSEs should never return - because teacher assessment is highly reliable and a lot better for everyone involved, argue three academics .
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Teaching should have compassion at the heart of all it does. Instead it's now a business model, which drives out the brilliant teachers, writes Colin Harris
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.@Keir_Starmer writes for @tes: 'We must increase teachers’ pay to reflect the importance we place on educating a child for life and ensure that school funding follows need, not votes'.
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Chief @educationgovuk adviser admits Government June 1st back to school plan risks spreading coronavirus and reveals he did not assess if plans could be effectively implemented
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.@JamesJkbowen: 'The reality is that most schools run on goodwill with teachers and school leaders going way beyond their contractual obligations every day – this is not sustainable'
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School uniforms are 'outmoded' and 'repressive' and should be abolished so that pupils can 'express themselves', ministers have been told
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Some pupils have lost stamina in their reading and writing, others have lost physical fitness and some are showing signs of mental distress in the Covid-19 pandemic, @Ofstednews finds.
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BREAKING: 6.5 per cent pay award recommended by independent review body.
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We've managed to survive a second year without Sats - and everyone's happier, says @chrisdysonHT.
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'When we say "education", we are always thinking of children,' writes @SadhguruJV. 'But I think the most important thing is the evolution of the teacher'.
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BREAKING: Government expected to announce delayed start to Jan term tomorrow
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After home schooling @ProfBrianCox says "It gave me - if I needed to have any - more respect for the skill and professionalism of teachers. it has been delivered to me very harshly in some sense, by trying to take over very briefly."
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Happy #WorldTeachersDay, everyone! Here's our message – what message would you like to send to teachers across the world?
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'It's time for an overhaul of physical education and how it is delivered; we need a greater emphasis on the use of sport as a vehicle with which to nurture physical, social and emotional health, as well as to develop essential life skills'.
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Dave Grohl (yep, @foofighters Dave Grohl) has spoken out about schools reopening during the pandemic. 'Teachers provide you with the necessary tools to survive,' he says. 'Who is providing them with a set of their own? Teachers are caught in a trap'.
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Schools should be judged on the wellbeing of their pupils, as well as their academic attainment, says @annelongfield
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