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  • Professor, School of Education and Director, Centre for Evaluation and Monitoring, Durham University
Measuring progress on tackling the impact of poverty. Dominic Lipinski/PA Archive

How to improve the chances of poor children at school

Steve Higgins, Durham University; Robert Coe, Durham University, and Stephen Gorard, Durham University

Overcoming educational disadvantage is not easy. Even before they enter the school gates for the first time, a variety of factors including inheritance, social class, parenting style and family income…
Bringing education to life. Students in class via Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock

How to make teaching great

Steve Higgins, Durham University and Robert Coe, Durham University

An article we wrote last week for The Conversation on Seven “great” teaching methods not backed up by evidence prompted a large amount of comment and discussion. One of the main questions has been, ok…
We know what doesn’t work. Teaching via Shutterstock/michaeljung

Seven ‘great’ teaching methods not backed up by evidence

Steve Higgins, Durham University and Robert Coe, Durham University

What makes “great teaching”? It’s a complicated question, made more difficult by trying to measure how teachers make decisions in the classroom and what impact those decisions have on what pupils learn…

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