The proportion of children in England who struggle to read has remained at a similar level for many years.
- Professor of Early Childhood and Primary Education, UCL
Children consistently expressed a desire for more choice in their education.
The government should publish a recommended curriculum that, crucially, schools are not bound in law to follow.
An experiential learning approach has an emphasis on the development of skills.
Reading and writing should be taught together again.
Our research found that focused grammar teaching didn’t improve children’s writing.
The government’s focus on synthetic phonics is too narrow.
Letting parents choose which school their child attends positions parents as consumers, and often diverts students and funding away from public schools.
The conditions for originality in a piece of writing.
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