Friday
What Mr Holland’s Opus gets right and wrong about teaching
New episode of our podcast on teachers in movies looks at Richard Dreyfuss’ turn as a prickly but inspirational music teacher
Student assessment should not follow the driving test model
The real world prizes innovative thinking and unpredictability, so school-level assessment should reflect that, says Melvyn Roffe
Tuesday
What does Freedom Writers get right and wrong about teaching?
The latest episode of our podcast on teachers in movies looks at Hilary Swank’s portrayal of a young teacher’s toils in a tough school
Lack of data ‘makes it harder to undo Covid damage’
The full impact of Covid on Scottish schools is unclear – so baseline measures urgently need to be established, MSPs warn
Friday
What we learned from life in a tiny French village school
Twenty years after the celebrated documentary Être et Avoir was released, it still offers amazing insight into a teacher’s work
Educators’ idealism belies the begrudging teacher trope
A keen sense of the impact their job can have keeps teachers going through the bad times, says Henry Hepburn
Wednesday
Why raising the school starting age isn’t a silver bullet
If Scotland wants a successful ‘play-based kindergarten stage’ the key will be highly trained staff – and plenty of them
School closures on cards over local government pay dispute
Scottish schools and nurseries poised to close for strike action after local government workers vote to reject pay offer
