Children from poorer backgrounds do worse at every stage of the education system.
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The pandemic has has a serious impact on school pupils – but a record number have applied to university.
The public is in favour of educating Protestant and Catholic children together but making it happen is easier said than done.
The reshuffled Department for Education is already facing controversy.
Teachers went to great effort to help parents support their children’s learning.
One option is for schools to develop mobile phone policies together with children and parents.
Children missed out on some of the curriculum, but not on learning.
More testing will not necessarily help children who struggle.
The case for homework for primary-age children is not clear.
Girls report not feeling clever enough to take physics.
Teachers and young people told us that action was needed in classrooms, schools, communities and from the government.
School closures were hard, but led to new skills that should be built upon.
The schools inspectorate’s policies about language are harmful to the most marginalised members of society.
It’s time for the UK government to rethink its strategy and focus on mental health.
Our research found that focused grammar teaching didn’t improve children’s writing.
State schools in England and Wales are legally required to provide acts of collective worship.
Despite no evidence of a plot emerging, the Trojan Horse affair had a real and detrimental impact.
Pursuing perfection is unnecessary and unrealistic.
Teachers thought there should be less focus on assessments.
Children who missed part of their reception year were three months behind in reading.
Top contributors
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ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Child Health and Education, Swansea University
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Research Officer, Swansea University
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Professor in Public Health Data Science, Swansea University
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Associate Pro Vice Chancellor for Student Inclusion and Professor of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, University of East Anglia
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Professor of Childhood Studies, Cardiff University
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Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Criminology, Staffordshire University
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Researcher in Child Health and Well-being, Swansea University
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Professor of Education Innovation, De Montfort University
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Associate Professor, School of Criminology, University of Leicester
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Professor of Education, Queen's University Belfast
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Professor of Economics, University of Bristol
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Independent researcher
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Reader in Social Sciences and Health, Cardiff University
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Professor of Public Health, University of Sheffield
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Director of Education, Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research Data and Method, Cardiff University
