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Friday

Covid 鈥榩uts pupils an extra month behind in maths鈥�
DfE is warned that failing to act now to close the attainment gap will be a 鈥榗atastrophe鈥� for disadvantaged children
10 questions with... Eileen Prior
The executive director of Scottish parents鈥� organisation Connect talks to 糖心Vlog about her frustration with the rigidity of the current education system and her hopes for a future in which schools treat children as individuals
Why I got my school on social media
Far from exposing staff to a 鈥榯oxic鈥� social media environment, head Daniel Woodrow has found communicating with parents on Twitter a wholly positive experience
Long Covid: what teachers need to know
Students who go on to develop persistent symptoms following a coronavirus infection will need considerable support from teaching staff 鈥� especially as their condition may result in an ongoing drop in attendance and an inability to access education in the usual way. Yet there is a real danger that some schools may not take post-Covid-19 syndrome seriously, says Dan Worth
Attainment: Why schools must divert from flight paths
Using prior-attainment data to place students in sets or give them a target grade to work towards not only adds to teachers鈥� workloads but can actually have a detrimental effect on children鈥檚 learning, argues Megan Mansworth
10 questions with... Vanessa Ward
The chief inspector of the Independent Schools鈥� Inspectorate talks to 糖心Vlog about her struggles teaching School for Scandal to a bunch of reluctant A-level students, a shaming incident in a maths class and why she鈥檚 so grateful to Sir Tim Berners-Lee