Different types of data can influence how parents select schools for their children. Viktorcvetkovic/E+ via Getty Images March 31, 2022 A new way to pick the best school for your child David M. Houston, George Mason University An education researcher explains how most school rating websites lack a key piece of information about school performance.
Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock September 17, 2018 The ideal school would put children’s development before league tables Sue Roffey, University of Exeter Imagining the ideal school.
Should we base education reforms solely on Australia’s international ranking? from www.shutterstock.com December 4, 2016 Governments need to look beyond education rankings and focus on inequities in the system Radhika Gorur, Deakin University The furore over Australia’s international ranking in science, maths and English obscures what we should really be focusing on.
Let’s wait a year before we do this. David Jones/PA Archive August 20, 2014 Shift from sitting GCSEs a year early wins guarded support Rachel Taylor, University of Oxford The number of students entered for a GCSE exam a year early plummeted by 40% this summer. Before 2014, the number of students taking their exams in Year 10 rather than Year 11, particularly in English…