….talk about grammar schools. What we really need in the system is to understand the evidence from long term research about how people learn. Political scientists might say ‘its about the economy’ and associate it with a judgement about the intellectual capacity of the reader.  Much is said about the values of education and how to create a great system – but the maxim should be “It’s about learning”. I will resist the urge to make a judgemental comment on readers!

Visible learning brings together longitudinal research from many countries  involving following progress of very large numbers of children and young people and draws important conclusions about the need to focus explicitly on how children learn, promoting dialogue of the learner. Professor John Hattie has produced remarkable studies on learning.

This should be what the national debate is about. see more at: http://visible-learning.org/