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Who's to blame for the new English literature GCSEs?
May 30, 2014 |
Category: English
The sound and fury surrounding text choices for GCSE English literature just won’t go away.
The exam boards got their digs in first with Paul Dodd of OCR claiming Gove wanted to ban US authors because...
Whose English literature is it anyway?
May 27, 2014 |
Category: English
Have you heard? Education Secretary, Michael Gove has personally intervened to ban the only books worth teaching in the entire canon of English literature. Twentieth century American classics like To...
What inspirational teaching looks like according to Ofsted
Feb 18, 2014 |
Category: Featured
So, as we know, Sir Michael Wilshaw is determined to make clear that Ofsted has no preferred teaching style. Right? Wrong.Just in case you were breaking open the Spumante to celebrate a return to comm...
Why do so many teachers leave teaching?
Feb 27, 2013 |
Category: Featured
Apparently 50% of teachers leave the profession within their first 5 years.I've heard this statistic bandied about for quite a while, and while you can argue the exact figure back and forth a bit (s...
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