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Mind your Grammar The show has blogs and links; a book review; edu news and views and two interviews on the grammar schools debate. Both the interviews will be available in full in The Ed Files Uncut later this week. Sponsors and Partners Thank you to Aston Microphones for supporting our show. Thank you to Innovate My School for helping promote our show. If you are interested in sponsoring us please let us know. Feedback Please give feedback by replying to our message on Anchor here or by using #theEdFiles on Twitter or in our group on Facebook. Or just feedback straight to use via this page - click and record - it is as simple as that. Click here to give us feedback Mailing List To join our mailing list to be notified of the upcoming episode - please subscribe here. Show Notes Your hosts are Alex Weatherall and Leon Cych. Tonight's show feedback Gerald Haigh https://twitter.com/geraldhaigh1 @Whatonomy https://twitter.com/whatonomy/status/793975822709297152 Felicity Sandral https://twitter.com/FelicitySandral/status/798417902076620801 Blogs and Links Teaching Morals in schools http://www.justschoolscollective.com/ Mike Cameron's The Social Contract https://cogitateit.wordpress.com/2016/11/16/the-social-contract News Round Ofsted information from Sean Harford https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/572048/School_inspection_update_November_2016.pdf ITT numbers Low for Physics and Computing. https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/572290/ITT_Census_1617_SFR_Final.pdf Rachel Wolf's article http://www.conservativeeducation.org/news/rachel-wolf-we-must-now-focus-what-goes-inside-classroom DFE's grammar school tweets - "The attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and their peers is virtually eliminated in selective schools" https://twitter.com/educationgovuk/status/800641910398472192 "Selective Schools are almost 50% more popular than non-selective schools when comparing a parent's first preference for their child" https://twitter.com/educationgovuk/status/798929945854701569 Evidence given to the Education Select Commitee on Grammar Schools - featuring Becky Allen and Nick Gibb http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/committeeevidence.svc/evidencedocument/education-committee/selective-education/oral/42974.html Letter to Stats authority https://www.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Letter-from-Ed-Humpherson-to-Jonathan-Slater-111116.pdf Scrooge and Jacob Marley Feedback form - Correction It was the Local Schools Network not School's Week - apologies to Janet Downs. http://www.localschoolsnetwork.org.uk/2016/11/dfe-short-survey-on-grammar-schools-accepts-response-from-scrooge Carpet Time Sarah Ledger https://twitter.com/sezl reviews Shakespeare on Toast: Getting a Taste for the Bard http://www.shakespeareontoast.com/ by Ben Crystal Interviews on Grammar Schools Leon interviewed Dr Becky Allen https://rebeccaallen.co.uk/ from Education Data Lab https://educationdatalab.org.uk/ Alex interviewed Jack Marwood who writes at Icing On the Cake http://icingonthecakeblog.weebly.com/ Niki Kaiser https://twitter.com/ChemDrK/ talking about Science Journal Club for her A-Level students. Thank you for listening to the Ed Files, follow us on twitter @TheEdFiles |