A research journal for teachers by teachers
What difference does education research make to teachers? Precious little. Thousands of papers are published every year and very little changes in classrooms. Recent attempts by the Education Endowment Foundation to synthesise and simply research so it can be easily consumed by busy teachers is laudable, but leads to problems. When someone else has does the thinking it relieves of the need to think for ourselves and all too often we end up saying, "the research shows..." without any real idea what it actually shows. So what to do? What would be great is if teachers had the time and expertise [...]