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The problem with "wokeness" as a category is it's far too wide and incorporates trends that are positive and ones that are problematic which makes it a profoundly unhelpful term.

Worth taking a step back from the specific exam fiasco this year and look at why we put so much emphasis on high-stakes exams in the English system (not uniquely

OK I'm going to do one last mini-thread on teacher assessment as this deeply unhelpful Telegraph headline has pissed me off. The reason teacher predicted grades were much higher than

1) I'm going to try and do a fair and balanced summary thread on what's gone on today with A-levels. It is more complicated than the headlines (as ever) so

Understand the frustration but this isn't true. The algorthim looks at past performance for the school and the cohort. Poorer pupils on aggregate will have done a bit better than

I tweeted a clip of Michael Holding talking about racism and he mentioned that while we've all heard about Thomas Edison few people will have heard of Latimer who invented

Current lockdown status: tearing up at every other scene in my West Wing rewatch. Jesus Christ every single episode. Sorkin is an emotionally manipulative wizard. Mrs Landingham talking about her

Cummings isn't the omniscient ubermensch that some of the Tory spin is making him out to be. He does however have an intuitive understanding of true populism which is very

The weird thing is that since the lockdown started the Govt has done broadly the right things - good economic package; put in place testing capacity; building tracing capacity; maintaining

I've posted this thread before but I'm doing so again because a lot of people seem very worried about an increase in the numbers of people outside. By far the

If there's a room of scientists around Cummings will be in it. He tends to be very deferential to them though as is obvious from his writings on the subject.

I'm trying to avoid "things will be different after this" tweets because they probably won't that much. But hard to think the immigration debate will look the same. It's surely