David Didau, via his 'The Learning Spy' blog, comments on the EEF review of written marking here: http://www.learningspy.co.uk/assessment/marked-decline-eefs-review-evidence-written-marking/ A marked decline? The EEF’s review of the evidence on written marking May 18, 2016 David comments: The only o...

And here is another post about the summary of the philosophy research via Andew Old's blog - a guest post by mingles: Does teaching philosophy to children improve their reading, writing and mathematics achievement? (Guest post by @mjinglis) July 14, 2015 To introduce the post, Andrew writes: I’ve be...

Jim Thornton notes this about the Education Endowment Foundation summary on: Teaching Philosophy in Primary Schools JULY 14, 2015 https://ripe-tomato.org/2015/07/14/teaching-philosophy-in-primary-schools/ Still no tests of statistical significance (the lead author, Stephen Gorard, has some sort of p...

Here is James Murphy again, this time noting a possible: A Convergence of Interests? MAY 10, 2014 / HORATIO SPEAKS https://horatiospeaks.wordpress.com/2014/05/10/a-convergence-of-interests/ Consider, for example, the Education Endowment Foundation. The government has invested considerable funds via ...

The 'Horatio Speaks' blog written by James Murphy has for some time raised questions about the summaries of the Education Endowment Foundation - here is one example: Vested Interests? OCTOBER 17, 2015 / HORATIO SPEAKS https://horatiospeaks.wordpress.com/2015/10/17/vested-interests/ Apparently lookin...

A fortune is being ploughed into the Education Endowment Foundation in England with the avowed intention: “The EEF has so far funded 127 evaluations in 7200 schools across England to find the most effective approaches and interventions for improving pupil attainment” Sir Kevan Collins, Chief Executi...

This kind of guidance below is a waste of time and effort and moves too far away from the level of rich, cumulative content and phonics skills' practice that learners need little and often, in abundance. So, yes, they need more 'phonicing' but they need it in the right format with the right kind of ...

Susan Godsend flagged up the guest blog posting below via Twitter. It is very worrying advice - but it includes very commonly-held notions of how to change direction with children who don't appear to be learning phonics very well. I've added a comment to say as such, but I don't know whether it will...

Greg's 'top three flawed teaching ideas':

https://gregashman.wordpress.com/2016/0 ... ing-ideas/

Anne Glennie uncovered the most extraordinary, questionable state of affairs when the pamphlet she flagged mysteriously disappeared and then seemed to be replaced by one which removed all references and guidance towards systematic synthetic phonics teaching. The new pamphlet was exactly the same 'da...