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Here’s something for Uni of Glos Education BEd and PGCE students to mull over.

The first job of an MP is to act in the interest of their constituents & in the national interest. We cannot clap for carers one month & cut tax for millionaires months later.

New: Pause “destructive” teacher training reforms, DfE urged, after new survey finds more than three quarters of teachers say their training was good or excellent educationuncovered.co.uk/news/159941/pa… YouGov survey of >1,000 teachers finds 77 per cent viewed their teacher education as gd/xlent

Ranting about an imaginary ‘anti growth coalition’ is just an attempt to obscure the hard reality that the biggest brake on UK growth is Brexit - and that’s on the Tories.

Gove on Brexit: “I ask myself all the time 'was it the right thing to do'" Bit late now, Michael. ft.com/content/908604…

Meanwhile in Gloucester. The Tories are campaigning to improve literacy standards.

If committed Lib Dem Liz Truss had decided in her twenties to infiltrate the Conservative Party in order to become leader & screw it up from the inside, how exactly would she have behaved differently over the last month?

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A turning point in The Telegraph? Project fear was right and ‘if anything have underestimated both the calamitous loss of international standing and the scale of the damage that six years of policy confusion and ineptitude has imposed on the country.’ telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/…

*cough* Coalition of Chaos *cough*

Stories emerging that in the scuffles taking place in the lobby yesterday, slabs of tofu were flung to the floor.

Now with 2000 views: Questioning the role of questions by Colin Forster, Jude Penny USW_Primary_ITE / PDC_Addysg_Gynradd Uni of Glos Primary Science and Russ Shalofsky: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… .

In 36 hours, Earth’s shadow will temporarily be cast onto our moon, creating a lunar eclipse. When the moon is completely covered, it will take on a red hue: the projection of thousands of sunsets onto the lunar surface. Here’s one of my captures from a previous eclipse.

More word soup from Ofsted as I read this review. What does this bit even MEAN? 🤷‍♀️

“'I’m so proud of my worksheets'..... said no learner ever." -Joe Bower

Sure. Because dealing with a headache by shooting yourself in the foot always seemed to me to be stupid. Especially if you still have the headache and now can’t walk. And that’s pretty much Brexit.

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My new blog post - "Cognitive Load Theory: An Unpersuasive Attempt to Justify Direct Instruction" - dissects another dubious effort to undermine progressive education by invoking the magic phrase "science of learning." (Warning: footnotes galore!) alfiekohn.org/blogs/clt/

RISHI SUNAK HAS CALLED A GENERAL ELECTION FOR 4 JULY. It's the end of the Tories (and I feel fine).