This fully updated third edition of Becoming an Outstanding Primary School Teacher
includes new material on blended learning, pedagogical leadership and teaching …

Education is an applied field for research. In the past 20 years or more, there has been
increasing pressure from stakeholders like funders and policy-makers for education …

This book arose from nearly 25 years of teaching social science research methods, and
writing methods resources. The book is based partly on the publicly funded research …

The availability of public funding for private schools, in both primary and secondary
education, has become a common feature in a number of OECD countries. The expansion of …

Around the world, governments, charities, and other bodies are concerned with improving
education, especially for the lowest-attaining and most disadvantaged students. Making …

Households with children eligible for Free School Meals are at risk of food insecurity. This
paper reports on a rapid‐response study that investigated the impact of the school food …

Pupil Premium funding has been provided to schools in England since 2011, to reduce
socio-economic segregation, and the attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and …

This paper examines the link between the clustering of long-term disadvantaged students
within schools, and the attainment gap at age 11 between these disadvantaged students …

The use of targeted additional funding for school‐age education, intended to improve
student attainment, is a widespread phenomenon internationally. It is slightly rarer that the …

This paper presents an analysis of the extent to which poor pupils in England are clustered
in schools with others like them. It is based on a segregation index of pupils eligible for free …