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Also just to correct Matt Goodwin, who lied and said the UK spends: "£15 billion housing asylum seekers" - no we don't. It was 2.1 billion this last year. And largely that's because the government is too stupid to let them work & help them get jobs while they wait for a decision. #bbcqt

I'm running a webinar about adaptive teaching on 5th November. Lots of practical advice about inclusive practice. Pay what you can to attend. Please share. Thank you! #EduSky www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-ultima...

The thing about the Overton window is that it just shifts by default if you let people propose insane policies like removing people with indefinite leave to remain without robust challenge. It doesn't just go away, it slowly leaks into the mainstream water supply unless you properly hose it down.

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The shortage of English teachers has not been resolved - cuts in bursaries for trainees are a mistake, argues @sarahmullin.bsky.social @englishassociation.bsky.social

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schoolreadinglist.co.uk/genres/banne... To celebrate #BannedBooksWeek Banned Books Week, here's our list of recommended books for EYFS, KS1, KS2, KS3 and KS4 that have been banned or challenged. Some children cannot resist a book that adults have branded subversive! #kidlit

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i hope this article gives hope to any teachers who are confronted with ideologies of the 'word gap' in their schools. despite the stubbornness of this deficit concept, there are always spaces for resistance 💕 ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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*What makes or breaks teaching for young people?* I have a new open-access paper out in @berj-2025.bsky.social bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Teacher-makers and teacher-breakers: (Re)defining how status and safety influence trajectories into and away from teaching 🧵(1/11)

Reform’s call to deport ALL people who legally make a life here - paying taxes, forming families, volunteering and even being elected - needs calling out. Contrary to Farage, ILR doesn’t = criminal. They ARE net contributors to our economy. An expensive, hateful & stupid plan.

Everyone in this country is descended from immigrants. Every single last one of us. And many, like Mr Farage, will have very recent migrant ancestors indeed and not even know about it.

Bloody hell . Fact checking Farage’s discredited migrant and benefits figures at 6pm. Astonishing and about time. #R4

This happened yesterday but with this news cycle...just so much happening. So I'm sharing now. We need to keep saying that Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. The UN issued a report: 4 of the 5 genocidal acts have been carried out since the start of the war. ...

Here’s a poem called ‘English Roundabouts’.

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Coming soon in Reading Research Quarterly 💫 Follow the word gap: the social life of a deficit concept

Browse our collection of resource websites, books, educational links, and ideas for literacy, English and oracy teaching in EYFS, KS1, KS2, KS3 and KS4 schoolreadinglist.co.uk/category/res... #kidlit #teachersofx #ukedchat

New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation

I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts. The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative. Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.

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Thank you @philippaeast.bsky.social for providing comment for my latest article. Thank you @northwestbylines.co.uk for publishing. Please share. northwestbylines.co.uk/politics/hum...

My MP @steveracemp.bsky.social with his view of the cuts to support for disabled people www.theprsd.co.uk/2025/06/23/w...

Excellent piece from @moremorrow.bsky.social. Defensive reactions to critique are unfortunately endemic on edutwitter but help nobody. I do find it ironic that we expect children to use critique to learn but we struggle with it ourselves.

Have you ever heard of academic press? New blog! peerreviewededucationblog.com/2025/06/14/t...

www.theguardian.com/society/2025... a good news story.

@badassteachers.bsky.social #TBATs #EduSky

This will be a really fascinating look at the multicultural history of Honiton and Ilfracombe.

exe-coll.ac.uk/course/intro... I’m really looking forward to starting this course. There are still a couple of places left, I think. 😊📝📚

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This looks great via @kitdewaal.bsky.social. @societyofauthors.bsky.social

Waterstones Children's Laureate @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social is a total force for good - here's a reminder of what his time in the role is all about! And he has big plans for 2025, kicking off by bringing together key figures for a #ReadingRights summit in January! Stay tuned...

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