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Exams, Engagement or Enterprise : What Really Counts?

For the past 10 weeks, we’ve been working with schools and teachers in three countries: China; India and Australia. During that period, the 2012 PISA results were announced, triggering a renewed bout of angst in Western countries generally, giving way…Read more ›

Why Are We So Divided On The Purpose of Education?

KQED’s excellent Mindshift blog recently featured an extract from my new book, OPEN. Many who visit this blog have already read the book, but I’ve included the extract, for completeness, below. What’s been interesting, however, has been the reaction to…Read more ›

What Does ‘Open’ Mean?

Since the publication, and very positive response, to OPEN: How We’ll Work Live And Learn In The Future, I’ve had  a number of people ask what the concept of ‘open’ means. here’s an attempt to present it visually (you’ll need…Read more ›

The Fear Factor That Holds Back Innovation

My friends at Canada Education have just published a piece I wrote for them on why schools find it so hard to innovate. I’d really recommend that you read it in its original context (not least because you’d see lots…Read more ›

Theory Will Only Get You So Far….

While I’ve been working in Australia, there’s been something of a furore back in England over a recent report on music learning in school. The report was primarily aimed at the newly-formed music hubs, but it was their assessment of music…Read more ›

Guest Blog: Learning Is A Lifelong Work

One of the  joys that has come from seeing my book published, has been the widening of contacts. One of the people who read my book and got in touch was Richard Martin. Richard is Head of Knowledge Management at RSSB,…Read more ›

Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves

It’s been a bad week for the high-stakes accountability advocates. First, came the news that, in New York City, test scores for students in English and Math had fallen off a cliff. Some of this precipitous drop – from 47%…Read more ›

Is Education Nation Having The Right Conversation?

Maybe it’s just me. I’ve been following (remotely) the US Education Nation Summit in New York this week. I can’t claim to have seen every session, but I’ve seen a lot, and it seems to me that the discussion -worthy…Read more ›

Direct Instruction & Political Polarisation

The shadow of E D Hirsch  loomed large this week. The founder of the Core Knowledge Foundation, and advocate of Direct Instruction, was featured in a  New York Times blog, and credited with winning the pedagogical battle in the United…Read more ›

“So, What’s Your Book All About?”

It’s the question I’ve been dreading over the past two years. I don’t know many authors, so I can’t say if it’s a universally felt reaction, but my unspoken response is ‘If I could sum it up in a couple…Read more ›