Report
Oracy after the pandemic
Oracy APPG report ‘Speak for Change’ published today In 2016 The Centre for Education and Youth published The State of Speaking, in partnership with Voice 21 and Big Change. This research revealed that while teachers prioritised oracy highly, they were rarely able to give it the attention they felt it deserved. This research spurred the…
Blog
Causation in Evidence-Based Policymaking and Education: 3 Tools to Help You Think About It More Effectively
This is a story about how a misunderstanding of a simple concept lost taxpayers $10 billion. In the first part of this blog, I’ll share this story. All of the characters in it are well meaning professionals. They acted out a script that will be familiar to anyone interested in evidence-based policymaking. There’s also a…
News & Events
White working class pupils and the CRED report
Today our Director of Research Dr Sam Baars was interviewed on LBC, as part of a discussion on outcomes for white working class young people in the wake of the report of the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities. Sam fed into the Education Select Committee’s inquiry into ‘left behind’ white working-class pupils in October…
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Genetic Nurture: A New Approach to Understanding Genes, Environment and Education
Genes vs Environment – Which is more important to development? Here’s a simple starter: what’s the area of this rectangle? The answer is of course 24cm. If I asked you to show your working out, you almost certainly used one of the most well-known algorithms in the world: the area of a rectangle = the…
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Child poverty is not unavoidable: Part II of the elephant in the room
In yesterday’s blog I set out three different definitions of poverty and showed that whichever definition you use, the case is clear: poverty is tightening its grip on families and this has a deeply damaging effect on children. I argued that the policy choices that drive child poverty send out waves that rip through schools…
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Child Poverty can’t be the elephant in the room
For me, one of the hardest things about writing a book was knowing how to finish it. After briefly trying to convince myself ‘Young People on the Margins’ didn’t need a conclusion, I had to admit, the final chapter would be crucial. The CfEY team had set out to write a book because we felt…
