Thank you- I hadn't quite realised, but those probably are the dots that Goodwin is definitiely not joining, or encouraging anyone else to join. (View Post)

Avoiding publishing the numbers doesn't help. But then again, neither does publishing the numbers. The best answer is for everyone to say, "yes, but does that number mean anything?" Wh… (View Post)

Zeal of the convert. Or as the meme puts it, Every lifelong Catholic I've ever met is like "I think we're supposed to give this food to poor people" and every adult convert is lik… (View Post)

My hunch (based on teaching in NE London) is that EAL pupils are a positive for a school's progress stats. Their KS2 scores tend a bit low (because they're still getting the hang of the lin… (View Post)

The main thing is... so what? It might be causing a fail in community cohesion if pupils never get fluent in English. It might be diverting an unreasonable amount of resource to get pupils up to spee… (View Post)