A Parliamentary Spat Over SATs
Education Committee Chair insists SATs “are absolutely for the children. It is nothing to do with the schools.” What’s been said? Anyone who has listened to the Education Committee Oral Evidence Session …
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Researchers Recognise the Benefits of Home Education
How parents might use academic research to challenge the prejudicial way in which home education is viewed What’s been said? Here we comment on two brief and very readable comment pieces from …
Thoughts on Measuring what You Value
What’s been said? Wera Hobhouse, Lib Dem MP for Bath, tabled this written question on 11 July 2018: ‘To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has made …
SATs are for Schools not Families
What’s been said? Frank Field, Labour Member for Birkenhead, asked a written “Named Day Question”, in the House of Commons on 21 March 2018. He wanted to know if the Secretary of …