IOE in the media: longer reads

Writing for TIME, Dr Katie Gaddini (UCL Social Research Institute) recounts the story of Norma Gabler, who led the crusade against the so-called secular trend in school textbooks in the USA throughout the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.

Professor Dominic Wyse (IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education & Society) highlights in The Conversation his new research showing that experiential, hands-on learning can keep school children motivated and engaged at school, helping them learn and retain vital skills.

Inspired by research from the UCL Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability Education, Professor Nicola Walshe, Dr Grace Healy and Dr Rachael Edwards (IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society) offer three recommendations to make climate education more inclusive.

Writing in The Conversation, Dr James Ransom (IOE, UCL's Faculty of of Education and Society) asks how Africa’s flagship universities are performing today when it comes to serving their local communities?

Writing in The Conversation, Professor Joyce Harper and PhD researcher Rina Biswakarma explore which areas of relationships and sex education is lacking in the current UK curricula.

Ig Nobel Prize winner, Dr Saul Justin Newman (UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies), interviewed by The Conversation, highlights the shortcomings in data around the study of people living past 105 years of age.

On A-Level results day, Professor Mary Richardson (IOE, UCL's faculty of Society & Education) examines how exam results reveal patterns of disadvantage and how the government should address it in The Conversation.

Writing in The Times of Israel, Dr Joseph Mintz (UCL IOE, Faculty of Education and Society) explores whether activism on campus can lead to the silencing of other opinions.

Dr Katie Gaddini (IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education & Society), writing in The Hill, argues the right-wing Christian women will give momentum to Trump’s potential re-election in 2024.

Poor policy decisions have eroded trust in the fairness of our assessment systems, and an important step for any incoming government is to address public confidence in this area, argues Professor Mary Richardson (IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education & Society) in The Conversation.

Writing in Economics Observatory, Professors Gill Wyness, Lindsey Macmillan and Dr Jake Anders (IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education & Society) propose low-cost, evidence based education reforms to equalise young people’s educational opportunities. 

Writing in The Jewish Chronicle, Dr Joseph Mintz (UCL IOE, Faculty of Education and Society) argues that human rights have been weaponised as a method of ‘lawfare’ employed against the Jewish People.

Research proposing a new model called the "Double Helix of Reading and Writing" is better for young children than the latest international trend in teaching synthetic phonics, explains Professor Dominic Wyse (IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education & Society) in The Conversation.

Dr Andrew Morris (IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society) argues that further education has come a long way in embracing research but leaders should be doing more to attract attention and funding in FE Week.

In The Conversation, Professor Jessica Ringrose (UCL IOE - Education, Practice & Society) and Dr Kaitlyn Regehr (UCL Information Studies) explain why not enough is being done to counter the normalisation of image-based sexual harassment and abuse in youth culture.