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Your roundup of ÌÇÐÄVlog’ most popular news and features articles from the past week, including a government deal over Oak National Academy, concerns about Sats marking, and ways to make teachers happy

A Scottish school has produced 200 four-minute films to help students understand core concepts at Higher

Progress in grammar, punctuation and spelling is behind pre-pandemic levels for all year groups, but worse for Year 2 pupils, Nuffield research shows

School league tables are an anachronism when schools do so much more than put students through exams, says John Rutter

Exclusive: Heads urge government to review the operation of this year’s Sats as concerns are raised by markers

A roundup of ÌÇÐÄVlog’ most popular news and features articles from the past week, including the threat of teacher strikes over pay, an A-level exam ‘leak’ and schools struggling to get funding to repair buildings

The DfE is pressing ahead with its plan to publish GCSE league tables this summer, despite widespread opposition in the sector. Given that schools have been affected differently by the pandemic, it raises awkward questions about how leaders should promote their success

The removal of poems by Philip Larkin and Wilfred Owen from a GCSE poetry anthology was criticised by the education secretary

Leaders warn that the DfE’s plan to change its school performance league tables website in the aftermath of Covid does not go far enough

Works by Ukrainian, black and South Asian poets to be introduced to OCR’s GCSE English literature course from September

Exam board says it will ‘take any action necessary, including working with the police’

Rail strikes are expected next week as students sit GCSE, A-level and BTEC exams. Here is a round-up of the guidance issued to schools if students – or invigilators – are late or miss an exam altogether