A new report from The Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) focuses on furthering the understanding of current practice and research priorities in teaching Writing. Key findings include: Similarities in schools between all key stages in terms of their approaches and/or programmes to teach Writing, and how the decisions on the approach to Writing are made and … Continue reading Understanding current practice and research priorities in teaching Writing
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Impact of the cost-of-living crisis on schools
Megan Lucas and Jenna Julius from the National Foundation for Education Research (NFER) have written a new report on the impact of cost-of-living. The NFER website notes: Since 2021, unprecedented increases in energy costs, rapid increases in food costs and substantial increases in the cost of housing via higher rent/mortgage costs have driven a dramatic … Continue reading Impact of the cost-of-living crisis on schools
Understanding Attendance: Findings on the drivers of pupil absence
In the 2022-23 academic year, 22.3% of all pupils were persistently absent. ImpactEd Evaluation launched Understanding Attendance, a national project helping schools and trusts to identify the underlying drivers of pupil absence, and the first report from this project "Understanding Attendance: Findings on the drivers of pupil absence from over 30,000 young people in England" … Continue reading Understanding Attendance: Findings on the drivers of pupil absence
Generative AI in education: educator and expert views
The The Open Innovation Team from the DfE has today (24 January) published a research findings report on the use of Generative AI (GenAI) in education. The introduction states: Although GenAI is not new, recent advances in the underlying technology and greater accessibility mean that the public can now use it more easily. This poses … Continue reading Generative AI in education: educator and expert views
Improvement through empowerment
The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has published a new report "Improvement through empowerment: Helping our teachers and schools be the best they can be". On their website they state: We need to shift the drivers of better schooling from high stakes top-down accountability to a system which empowers schools and teachers to innovate and … Continue reading Improvement through empowerment
Parental Engagement Report 2023
The new Edurio Parental Engagement Report has just been published. It looks into the feedback from 38,000 parents and carers from 266 schools across 30 trusts in the 2022/2023 school year. Additionally, by reviewing the feedback of 86,000 parents from the past 4 years, the report uncovers how they really feel about efforts to engage … Continue reading Parental Engagement Report 2023
A review of current practice focusing on the strategies used to manage teacher workload in English schools
The Education Endowment Foundation has published a practice review on supporting the recruitment and retention of teachers in schools with high proportions of disadvantaged pupils: understanding current practice around managing teacher workload. The report is by Principal investigator Kerry Martin and Co-investigators: Caroline Sharp, Rachel Classick and Henry Faulkner-Ellis. You can download it from their … Continue reading A review of current practice focusing on the strategies used to manage teacher workload in English schools
1970s working conditions in the 2020s
The Eduication Support Commission on Teacher Retention, supported by Public First, has published its final report on the state of the teaching profession in England’s secondary schools in 2023. Highlight results include: 78% of teachers said they would be likely to leave the profession if they were offered a job in another sector which promised … Continue reading 1970s working conditions in the 2020s
Cost-of-living crisis: Impact on schools
The NFER (National Foundation for Education Research) has, this month, published two reports on the impact of the cost-of-living crisis on schools - over 2700 teachers and senior leaders were surveyed in April and May 2023 in mainstream and special schools. The research, funded by the Nuffield Foundation and conducted in collaboration with ASK Research, … Continue reading Cost-of-living crisis: Impact on schools
Pearson’s School Report 2023
The second School Report has been released by Pearson: it takes an in-depth look at life in schools in 2023 – from the collective perspective of over 6,000 educators and, new for this year, 1,000 students too. The report covers a wide range of areas, inlcuding: Pastoral issues; Pressures; Diversity, equity and inclusion; The environment; … Continue reading Pearson’s School Report 2023
New NGA report on governance challanges
The National Governance Association (NGA) released a report today on the top 10 school and trust governance challenges. These were revealed through their analysis of 200 government-funded external reviews of governance (ERGs). The top challenges include: Board composition; Identifying skills gaps; Recruiting people with diverse experiences and knowledge; Being the right size to suit the … Continue reading New NGA report on governance challanges
The National Tutoring Programme review
The National Tutoring Programme (NTP) was introduced by the Department for Education (DfE) in the 2020-21 academic year to provide subsidised tuition to disadvantaged pupils and help close the attainment gap caused by school closures in response to Covid-19. NFER’s Teacher Voice Omnibus survey was used to get feedback from teachers about how successful this has … Continue reading The National Tutoring Programme review
A review and meta-analysis of the evidence on learning during the COVID-19 pandemic
A new article published in the journal Nature Human Behaviour provides a detailed survey of the effects of COVID on children's learning across 15 countries. The authors record a substantial overall learning deficit which arose early in the pandemic and persists over time. Learning deficits are particularly large among children from low socio-economic backgrounds. They are also larger … Continue reading A review and meta-analysis of the evidence on learning during the COVID-19 pandemic
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