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Nine key findings from PISA 2018
With important conclusions on reading and maths ability, life satisfaction and growth mindsets
Five things to remember when the PISA 2018 results are released
Important points to bear in mind, from PISA expert John Jerrim
School accountability: why multi-year measures would be fairer to everyone and how they could be implemented
John Jerrim. School league tables produced every year by the Department for Education currently use a single year of test score data in the headline measure. Based upon how a school’s most recent cohort of Year 11’s performed on their…
10 years on: how researchers and the autistic community are making a future together
Anna Remington and Laura Crane. The way we view autism is slowly changing. When the Centre for Research in Autism Education (CRAE) was set up in 2009, autistic people were not often heard. Today, a world-wide Climate Change protest is led by…
Should England continue participating in PISA?
With upwards of £2m spent for England, Wales and Northern Ireland to take part, it’s a question worth asking
‘Kids are speaking out but still adults don’t take us seriously’: children show the way on rights and the future
By youth activists Isabelle Mathews and Sivitha Sivakumar and members of the Eco-club of Manchester Enterprise Academy Central with Claire Cameron (IOE) 20 November 2019 is the 30th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.…
Is Canada really an education ‘superpower’? The evidence is not as clear-cut as you might think
PISA: A low participation rate raises questions about Canada’s seemingly stellar PISA performance
Are 16-year-olds prepared for politics? Or are they over-protected from controversy and debate?
Alex Standish. Increasingly, children and young people are stepping into political arenas that have been considered the realm of adults. In an insecure world, they are campaigning for their own lives and futures. In the UK this year, students joined…
Should we eat more fish or more ice-cream to boost PISA scores?
Two cautionary tales ahead of December’s publication of new PISA results
Paying for a private sixth form education: how much difference does it make?
Francis Green and Morag Henderson. Britain’s private schools have again entered the public eye, with increasing concern over social mobility and social justice. There have been pressures for reform from several quarters. The most extreme was a September call for…
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