UK

This page details the significant number of posts and pages I have written that relate wholly or partly to the UK – and normally to England. They appear in chronological order.

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2010

• Building a Federation of UK G&T Interests (July 2010)

• The Transatlantic Excellence Gap: A Comparative Study of England and the USA, Part 1 and Part 2 (August 2010)

• The Transatlantic Excellence Gap: Part 3 – Social Mobility Through Fair Access to Higher Education (September 2010)

• On the Composition of Gifted and Talented Populations (September 2010)

• On Ability Grouping and Gifted Education: Part 1 and Part 2 (September 2010)

• Establishing One Voice in England (October 2010)

• Ethnic Minority Representation in Gifted Populations (October 2010)

• On the Relationship Between STEM and Gifted Education – Part 1 and Part 2 (November 2010)

• On Social Mobility Through Fair Access to Higher Education and the Professions (November 2010)

• More on STEM and Gifted High Achievers in England (November 2010)

• What Does The Schools White Paper Mean For English Gifted Education? (December 2010)

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2011

• On Fair Access to Competitive Universities and Grammar Schools Part 1 and Part 2 (January 2011)

• Villiers Park Educational Trust (January 2011)

• A Worldwide Invitation to Join GT Voice (March 2011)

• Will England Copy Singapore’s Integrated Programme (IP)? (March 2011)

• England’s National Curriculum Review: Meeting the Needs of Gifted Learners – Part 1 and Part 2 (April 2011)

• Room at the Top: A New Direction for Gifted Education? Part 1 and Part 2 (May 2011)

• An Epistolary Conversation About Gifted and Talented Education (June 2011)

• The Composition of England’s Gifted and Talented Population in Schools (June 2011)

• Which Way Now for UK Gifted Education? (August 2011)

• Which Way Now for UK Gifted Education: Retracing Recent History (August 2011)

• Which Way Now for UK Gifted Education: Response To Current Government Policy I (September 2011)

• The Introduction in England of Selective 16-19 Maths Free Schools (November 2011)

• GT Voice Sets Out Its Immediate Priorities (December 2011)

• The Report By The Expert Panel For The National Curriculum Review (December 2011)

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2012

• GT Voice Issues a Policy Statement on the English School Performance Tables (February 2012)

• The Sutton Trust Open Access Scheme (April 2012)

• The Removal of National Curriculum Levels and the Implications for Able Pupils’ Progression (June 2012)

• A Basic Framework for National Curriculum Assessment (June 2012)

• Implications of Abolishing the Secondary National Curriculum (June 2012)

• An Analysis of ‘Educating the Highly Able’ (July 2012)

• High Attaining Pupils in the 2012 Primary School Performance Tables (December 2012)

• IGGY – The International Gateway for Gifted Youth (December 2012)

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2013

• High Attaining Students in the 2012 Secondary School Performance Tables (January 2013)

• Where Have We Got To With National Curriculum Reform? Part 1 and Part 2 (February 2013)

• Whither National Curriculum Assessment Without Levels? (February 2013)

• A Progress Report on 16-19 Maths Free Schools (March 2013)

• Why Do We Need a Bloggers’ Strand at ResearchED 2013? (March 2013)

• April Fool’s Day 2013 (April 2013)

• A Summer of Love for Englsih Gifted Education? Episode One: KS2 Level 6 Tests (May 2013)

• Driving Gifted Education Forward (June 2013)

• My Twitter Feed Summarising Key Points from Ofsted’s Report ‘The Most Able Students’ (June 2013)

• What the KS2/KS4 Transition Matrices Show About High Attainers’ Performance (June 2013)

• A Summer of Love for Englsih Gifted Education? Episode 2: Ofsted’s ‘The Most Able Students’ (June 2013)

• A Summer of Love: A Brief Dux-Inspired Interim Report (July 2013)

• Accountability, Assessment and the New National Curriculum (A Work in Progress) (July 2013)

• Accountability, Assessment and the New National Curriculum: Part One (July 2013)

• Accountability, Assessment and the New National Curriculum: Part Two (July 2013)

• Analysis of the Primary Assessment and Accountability Consultation Document (July 2013)

• How High Attainers Feature in School Inspection and Performance Tables (and what to do about it) (October 2013)

• How High Attainers Feature in Ofsted Inspection and School Performance Tables (and what to do about it) – Part Two (October 2013)

• A Summer of Love for English Gifted Education? Episode Three: Improving Fair Access to Oxbridge (November 2013)

• Presentation at Westminster Education Forum, 7 November 2013 (December 2013)

• High Attainment in the 2013 Primary School Performance Tables (December 2013)

 

2014

• High Attainment in the 2013 Secondary and 16-18 Performance Tables (January 2014)

• The 2013 Transition Matrices and High Attainers’ Performance (January 2014)

• What Becomes of Schools that Fail their High Attainers?* (February 2014)

• Challenging NAHT’s Commission on Assessment (March 2014)

• Unpacking the Primary Assessment and Accountability Reforms (April 2014)

• How well is Ofsted reporting on the most able? (May 2014)

• A closer look at Level 6 (May 2014)

• One for the Echo Chamber (May 2014)

• ‘Poor but Bright’ v ‘Poor but Dim’ (May 2014)

• Why can’t we have national consensus on educating high attainers? (June 2014)

• Digging beneath the destination measures (July 2014)

• What happened to the Level 6 reading results? (September 2014)

• Closing England’s excellence gaps: Part 1 (September 2014)

• Closing England’s excellence gaps: Part 2 (September 2014)

• 16-19 maths free schools revisited (October 2014)

• 16-19 maths free schools revisited: Oddyssean edition (October 2014)

• Excellence gaps quality standard: Version 1 (October 2014)

• The politics of setting (November 2014)

• The politics of selection: Grammar schools and disadvantage (November 2014)

• How well do grammar schools perform with disadvantaged students? (December 2014)

• High attainment in the 2014 Primary School Performance Tables (December 2014)

• HMCI ups the ante on the most able (December 2014)

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2015

• 2014 primary and secondary transition matrices: High attainers’ performance (January 2015)
• Addressed to Teach First and its Fair Education Alliance (January 2015)

• A primary assessment progress report (January 2015)

• High attainment in the 2014 Secondary and 16-18 Performance Tables (February 2015)

• Maths Mastery: Evidence versus spin (February 2015)

• Labour’s commitment to gifted education: Can the Tories match it? (March 2015)

• The most able students: Has Ofsted made progress? (March 2015)

• The Policy Exchange National Scholarships Programme (March 2015)

• Why McInerney is just plain wrong (March 2015)

• How strong is Oxbridge access? (March 2015)

• Fair access trends in DfE’s destinations data 2010-2013 (March 2015)

• Has Ofsted improved inspection of the most able? (April 2015)

• Protecting pupil premium for high attainers (April 2015)

• A digression on breadth, depth, pace and mastery (April 2015)

• Oxford Access Lecture (April 2015)

• Fisking Teach First’s defence of its pupil premium policy (April 2015)

• Response to Russell Hobby’s post of 8 May 2015 (May 2015)

• Proposals for a 2015 Schools White Paper: most able (May 2015)

 

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