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Australia has a maths problem, and it starts in primary school. The good news is, there are practical steps principals and teachers can take to turn this around. Our new guide by Jordana Hunter Amy Haywood Daniel Petrie & Nick Parkinson shows how. buff.ly/Eu1yid4

“[N]othing gets cut but nothing gets funded properly” is spot on. Because government lacks a real strategic centre, departments often try to make savings by cutting big, effective programmes (because that’s where the money is) while protecting smaller, weaker ones. The result

Love this! Giving teachers access to a high-quality, fully resourced curriculum is one of the best things we can to do improve student outcomes, cut teacher workload, and build teacher expertise.

Not convinced that one extra teacher at some point over the next four years is quite the right level of ambition for a government with a stonking majority.

I wrote this about how to read and why. Books remain the best technology ever invented to understand life and the world. There is no alternative. Every book you read helps you build a richer picture of the entire world. substack-proxy.glitch.me/articles/open-…

"Professionals in other high-stakes domains such as medicine, aviation, engineering, routinely follow evidence-based protocols, not because they are automatons, but because they are accountable to what works. They still exercise judgement, but that judgement is informed, not

In my book 7 Myths about Education, I wrote a chapter about why transferable skills don't exist. But you don't need a chapter - just this brilliant sentence by James Marriott '“Transferable skills”, that mad but unkillable doctrine beloved of prospectus writers which holds

Nothing beats good old hard work. Schools must defend knowledge-curricula, traditional exams & teachers must understand cognitive load theory to prevent being seduced by AI trends influencing schooling.

Blake Harvard I think this is one of the major failing of our education systems. We haven't managed to persuade our students that when we assess their work, we are trying to assess the quality of the thinking that led to the work, for which the work is a proxy...

If a largely AI-written curriculum is the answer, you’re asking the wrong question.

The Writing Framework has just been published, and I'm pleased to have been part of the sector panel to help produce this important document. I'm optimistic that the framework will help leaders to further develop the teaching of writing in their schools gov.uk/government/pub…

Government accused of trying to scrap Teach First, which has recruited over 20,000 high flying graduates into schools - my piece for The Observer observer.co.uk/news/politics/…

Prior to Teach First being set up, top graduates from high-tariff universities rarely went into teaching - let alone in disadvantaged areas. Rowing back from this policy would send a clear signal that teaching is no longer a leading graduate profession.

Teach First was a brilliant innovation that has led countless top graduates to become inspiring teachers. Many of them took that sense of innovation & worked with New Schools Network to set up brilliant free schools. These innovations were targeted at helping those from disadvantaged

In the latest post on our Substack I try to make sense of the mutual incomprehension between teachers & students about the role of AI in the classroom. Is it OK for students to use AI to write their assignments if that's the most efficient thing to do? If not, why not?

There are around 250 university courses where fewer than half of those who enroll complete and go on to a graduate job. We should defund them all - now. Protect students from being mis-sold a dream and getting £50k of debt instead. Protect taxpayers from picking up the tab.

Entitlement is destroying the UK. Entitlement of nimbys, triple locked pensioners, tax avoiding rich, welfare fraudsters, corporations rigging the regulatory system, militant unions. Take on all vested interests simultaneously. And call it patriotism thetimes.com/article/a92365…

ITT is a really important part of a teacher’s career, and it’s encouraging that an increasing number of people and organisations recognise that. But it doesn’t mean we should call for every new initiative or challenge to be included in the ITT curriculum. Ambition Institute