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Culture eats values and vision statements for breakfast
Why culture is learned through imitation, tolerated behaviour and informal influence rather than assemblies, policies and good intentions
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Reading for betterment
Beyond pleasure: how reading can make us better people
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A review of 2025 on The Learning Spy
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Teaching metre as meaning
How to bring Shakespeare's verse to life
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The best non-fiction I read in 2025
As with the companion piece I wrote about the fiction I’ve most enjoyed this year, the following list is made up of books, old and new, which I read for…
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The myth of teaching children to 'read for pleasure'
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The Dual Coding Delusion
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Five principles of effective assessment
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When the bridge is down: how poor assessment creates needless struggle
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The fiction I've most enjoyed reading in 2025
Yet another booklist
Dec 18, 2025
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Professional scepticism
Until education becomes the kind of profession that reveres evidence, we should not be surprised to find its experts dispensing unproven methods…
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A seat at the table: knowledge, inheritance and the purpose of schooling
Reflections on 'The Value of a Knowledge-Rich Curriculum'
Dec 13, 2025
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Missing the wood for the trees: why the Buchin & Mulligan study tells more about the gap between everyday and academic reasoning
How everyday reasoning exposes the flaws in domain-based research design and why predictive processing has nothing to add
Dec 12, 2025
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The myth of teaching children to 'read for pleasure'
Pleasure is the consequence of fluency, stamina and knowledge.
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The psychology of belonging
Why belonging in schools depends on entry into the conceptual world of academic language, not merely on connection or recognition
Dec 3, 2025
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The language of belonging
Large longitudinal studies track perceptions of fairness, support and safety, yet they rarely acknowledge the linguistic world in which these…
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