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Scientific Racism 2.0
A number of prominent science authors who research in the field of human genetics, including the BBC's Adam Rutherford, have supported a new blogpost by Ewan Birney. Its purpose is ostensibly as an "explainer" aimed at allaying public fears about...
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Bias in education expenditure which favoured better-off has disappeared
Here's a report from the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS). It shows how the historical bias in education expenditure which favoured the better-off declined radically in the first decade of this century, and has now disappeared altogether. Readers here will...
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The 'Education is broken' trope
There's a piece in this week's Observer entitled; "Our failing education system means its still no easier to climb life's ladder". The notion of an education system failing wholesale is of course a trope popular amongst people who want radical...
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Academic freedom and non-democracies
Many UK universities have close academic relationships with non-democratic states. The reasons, often to do with income and helping states modernise their societies and infrastucture, are well-rehearsed. There's a story in the papers at the moment, though, where the compromises...
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Hold the front page - Michael FD Young has had second thoughts about knowledge in the curriculum
'The other' Michael Young, the one who's still alive, author of Knowledge and Control (1971) and still a full professor at UCL, has changed his mind about knowledge in the curriculum. He's with the right's ED Hirsch now on that stuff,...
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Oli Mould; "Against Creativity", on FreshEd
FreshEd Podcast is always a rewarding listen. This one sees geographer @olimould of Royal Holloway talking about how creativity is increasingly characterised in economic terms. Oli has a book out; "Against Creativity". His ideas seem really quite righteous. Go on,...
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'Blueprint' - The stealthy return of Scientific Racism?
"Blueprint: How DNA makes us who we are" - by Kings College, London's Professor Robert Plomin, is due out on 4 October. Publisher Penguin Allen Lane is in the UK giving review copies only to people who will give the book...
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Wellington College and England's Festival of Education
The annual Festival of Education at Wellington College is sponsored by the Daily Telegraph. It's part of the new nexus of 'evidence-based' organisations steadily growing around schools in the independent and state academies sectors. Speakers are varied, from serious scholars...
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ResearchED
ResearchED is a growing organisation which says it exists to bring research to bear on the everyday practice of education. It doesn't conduct research, although some of its staff and associated teachers do write 'how to teach' or 'where education...
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Children detained in the US; online charter schools
Interesting FreshEd podcast episode here on how the detained children of people removed from the United States have quite irregular schooling provision. Notably, because the prison systems they're detained in are privatised, this means the childrens' education provision is too....