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Pupil ethnicity did not explain their attainment or likelihood of exclusion. Pupils' poverty level and SEND status are better predictors of attainment and exclusion. mdpi.com/3102390 #mdpieducation via Education Sciences

Do School Exclusions and Attainment Outcomes Disproportionately Impact Minority Ethnic Pupils? Analysis of Pupil Characteristics, Segregation, and Outcomes in England School of Education at Durham University authors Stephen Gorard Nadia Beng Huat See(Education Research at Birmingham) Yiyang Gao doi.org/10.3390/educsc…

Can we explain ethnic differences in school exclusions and attainment, in terms of socio-economic characteristics? Do School Exclusions and Attainment Outcomes Disproportionately Impact Minority Ethnic Pupils? Analysis of Pupil Characteristics, Segregation, and Outcomes

New Spotlight on: Professor Stephen Gorard championing use of evidence to improve education outcomes - Durham University durham.ac.uk/news-events/la…

Interview on Polish media about how we can attract more people into teaching. Not salaries or workload as such. biznes.newseria.pl/news/podwyzki-…

Warwick Mansell BBC Radio 4 Today Here is some of the relevant research. theconversation.com/academies-have…

Academies haven’t raised pupil achievement in ENG: there’s no need for them to have privileges that other schools do not theconversation.com/academies-have… via Stephen Gorard

New paper out today. How having teachers of the same ethnic origin might influence pupil treatment and wider school outcomes. doi.org/10.71002/res.v…

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Guardian today reports our study on school exclusions, looking at the multiple interactions between ethnicity, poverty, SEN/EHC, attainment and suspensions. Ethnicity not key factor in England school exclusions, study finds | Race in education | The Guardian

A perfect follow up to our further paper published yesterday showing that a match between the ethnicity of teachers and students can affect student treatment and experience at school. However, the picture is not a simple one. doi.org/10.71002/res.v…

Warwick Mansell There is none. It’s very hard to demonstrate that one type of school has better outcomes than another. Politicians routinely fall for - this school has higher raw scores so must be a better school. Even ofsted are affected by it.

New paper - open access. One way to encourage recruitment and retention of minority ethnic staff in schools in England is to have a better mix of existing ethnic groups between schools. In terms of pupils, staff and leadership. Beng Huat See Nadia doi.org/10.71002/res.v…

David Nunan EEF The Campbell Collaboration Speaking of that phrase, have you read Stephen Gorard on this? taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.…

New open access paper in BERJ. The advantages, and some disadvantages, of going to school in India and Pakistan. What do governments need to do? bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/be…

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New free open access paper. How the range of education research expertise has narrowed over 20 years in UK. So-called mixed methods appears to be dying. Most people only know how to do so-called qualitative work. What a shame. bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/be…

And what a waste of public money on initiatives by BA, Nuffield, ESRC and others to extend and improve research methods skills. Then and now: Twenty years of education research methods use in the United Kingdom - Smith - British Educational Research Journal - Wiley Online Library

💡 Interesting insights from Stephen Gorard et al Evidence Centre for Education BERA Race, Ethnicity and Education Network Paper contributing to ongoing debates about the quality and usefulness of education research over last twenty years… Also, scale/range of EEF studies over time pre/post #covid Link in roundup

New preliminary report (very tentative so far) on the link between household income and attainment at school. Income data not a panacea as yet, but full of promise. Some support for findings that poverty attainment is declining somewhat. Watch this space. durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/3959451