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May 22 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
This seems an opportune time to draw attention to an important (and rather incredible) feature we've been running in @SchoolsWeek - #TheSectorsManifesto
It's been going fortnightly, but its' going to speed up now.
So...
PREVIOUSLY ON THE SECTOR'S MANIFESTO
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We started with @LeoraCruddas setting out a vision for a resilient system
"What we need is not a big state or a small state according to ideologies, but a strategic state that focuses on its duty to deliver that goal"
"So... This research is based on interviews with teachers and senior leaders?"
"Yes."
"Great! How many?"
"84."
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"You know there are 350,000 teachers in state-funded secondary schools, right?"
"Yeah."
"And you spoke to 84 of them?"
"Well, not all at once."
"What does that mean?"
"We spoke to 49 of them some time ago."
"When?"
"Prefer not to say."
Jan 29, 2019 • 24 tweets • 8 min read
No joke.
I read a paper on education by the World Bank last week that compares teaching to making ‘kebabs, emapanadas, samosas or pizzas’.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
(Source: documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/483…)
You’ll be glad to know the venerable institution acquiesces to the fact that teaching is more complex than making a pizza.
Nov 1, 2018 • 22 tweets • 5 min read
I’ve been thinking about Trump’s accusation that CNN is #FakeNews. Clearly propaganda against a critical media outlet, yet CNN bears some responsibility. They created the 24-hour news cycle. It was only 6 years old when I moved to the US, aged 9. I remember being hooked by it.
It’s a big world out there, and if you’re inclined, you can fill a 24-hour news channel a hundred times over with new and original content.
Provided you can get enough journalists. And enough revenue.
