Dr Andrew Croft

“High-stakes exams may shift the educational experience away from learning towards exam performance. For these reasons, we suggest that teacher assessments could be relied on for monitoring progress, instead of exam scores, in particular during earlier school years.” – Margherita Malanchini https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/may/13/teachers-assessing-pupils-could-replace-formal-exams-study-says Continue reading The Guardian: Teachers assessing pupils could replace formal exams, study says

“Schools obviously are free to set their own behaviour policies but my own view is that schools should ban mobile telephones and smartphones inside school, and particularly inside classrooms.” – Nick Gibb https://inews.co.uk/news/education/headteachers-corrosive-mobile-phones-banned-schools/ Continue reading iNews: Headteachers call for ‘corrosive’ mobile phones to be banned in schools

“Each year, CCSSO works with the White House to coordinate a recognition event. It is up to each administration to decide how to recognize the teachers, and it has varied throughout the 67-year history of the program in location and who has delivered the recognition to the National Teacher.” – Paul Ferrari https://f7td5.app.goo.gl/X6xph Continue reading Article: Trump not expected to attend Teacher of the Year award ceremony

“With measles cases almost quadrupled in England in just one year, it is grossly irresponsible for anybody to spread scare stories about vaccines, and social media firms should have a zero tolerance approach towards this dangerous content.” – Simon Stevens . https://uk.style.yahoo.com/half-million-children-missing-measles-vaccine-signs-symptoms-potential-complications-093111968.html Continue reading Yahoo Style: Half a million children missed measles vaccine, but what are the signs, symptoms and potential complications?