Schools provide a link between generations in a local area.
- Professor of Sociology of Education, UCL
The phonics screening check is so closely correlated with month of birth that it can be argued that it is a test of age rather than decoding.
Wellbeing and school absence should be priorities now.
Teachers’ main justification for running a food bank was the moral imperative to support families who needed it.
The government’s focus on synthetic phonics is too narrow.
State-funded nursery schools now fill significant gaps in welfare provision in England.
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