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The idea of tackling ‘word gaps’ between poorer children and their wealthier peers has become normalised in schools – but it is part of a damaging deficit narrative that has been debunked by research, says Ian Cushing

When is GCSE results day and what happens if your students don’t achieve the grades they wanted? We round up the key information

Exam board AQA says it has ‘robust’ plans in place to ensure that the strike does not delay next month’s GCSE and A-level results

The education secretary said exam errors are ‘unacceptable’ and risk causing unnecessary stress for pupils

When is A-level results day and what happens if your students don’t achieve the grades they wanted? We round up the key information below

Screen-based exams within the next five years are ‘possible’ – but only with national support, say teachers

Exclusive: 90% of teachers surveyed also said they are not satisfied with the current assessment arrangements, a new survey finds

Your roundup of 91¶¶Òõ’ most popular news and features articles from the past week includes all the reaction to the teacher pay rises, a big announcement about Sats and Ofsted’s concerns about schools being too focused on exams

Exclusive: New analysis also reveals the regions experiencing the biggest fall in those reaching the expected standard at key stage 2 Sats during the pandemic

Heads welcome clarification following the DfE’s decision not to produce key stage 2 performance tables this year

This week we revisit a 91¶¶Òõ Podagogy podcast from 2018, featuring Dr Louise Kay, to explore what we really mean when we say a child is or isn’t ‘school-ready’

Students from poorer backgrounds in Wales were almost two years behind their peers pre-pandemic, finds new analysis