HeyJaredNicola Peacock
Senior leader in secondary education in Dubai. I write to make sense of the challenges, contradictions and joys of school life — reflections shaped by daily practice, conversations and the ideas that inspire me.
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Education as a Space Inbetween (opens the original)
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It was early September, about a week into the new school year. I was sixteen, only just. Instead of returning to begin my A Levels, I had taken an admin job in a portacabin on the council estate where I lived. It did not feel like a decisive moment in my life. It simply felt like the next thing.My stepfather answered the doorbell. I never saw who was standing outside. I heard her voice before I saw her and knew immediately who it was. My English teacher had come to ask why I had not returned to
The Paradox of Value-Added Measures in Schools (opens the original)
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One of the enduring challenges in education is deciding how we know whether a school has made a difference.Raw examination results tell us surprisingly little. Schools admit students with different levels of prior attainment, different experiences, different opportunities and different challenges. Comparing GCSE outcomes alone tells us almost nothing about the quality of education a school provides. A school admitting highly academic students will almost always achieve stronger examination resul
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