Unpopular opinion: this means kids from privileged backgrounds are already better off before they even start lessons - the solution isn't to make school more like the outside world, but instead use lessons to provide better cultural capital and even out existing inequalities. https://twitter.com/anafabrega11/status/1259560400242257921

A particularly good summary of this here: https://schoolleader.typepad.com/school-leader/2017/05/seven-myths-about-education.html

In fact, sod it, I might just keep adding links to this thread, like this brilliant blog about how different subjects need to be taught differently: https://mcsbrent.co.uk/bunsen-blue-designing-a-science-curriculum/

A lot of this work has been done already, and this system doesn't need entirely reinventing...

What we need is for the quality research to be circulated so that the pedagogical strategies that WORK and are proven to work by RESEARCH get as much amplification as possible.