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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.

September 17, 2018

The ideal school would put children’s development before league tables

Sue Roffey, University of Exeter

Imagining the ideal school.

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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…

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