As an ethnic minority myself and co-author of this paper, I have experienced racism (being called all kinds of names), but when our teachers are doing well is handling discrimination by race, we should acknowledge it.

@SGorard Contrary to what equality campaigners are saying, this paper highlights the intersectionality of ethnicity and other indicators of disadvantage. But crucially, children are not excluded solely for the colour of their skin.

RT @SGorard: A perfect follow up to our further paper published yesterday showing that a match between the ethnicity of teachers and studen…

RT @SGorard: Guardian today reports our study on school exclusions, looking at the multiple interactions between ethnicity, poverty, SEN/EH…

Responding to a decades-old crisis

RT @ERP_IOE: ✨ Yesterday was an amazing day at the ESRC Education Research Programme's annual meeting in London! 🎉 Loved hearing about all…

RT @SGorard: @warwickmansell @BBCr4today Here is some of the relevant research.

@SGorard A lot of education policies are driven by ideology rather than evidence.

RT @SGorard: Have academy schools been more successful than community schools, and is it due to their extra freedoms? Read my new piece in…

RT @beng_see: Pupil ethnicity did not explain their attainment or likelihood of exclusion. Pupils' poverty level and SEND status are better…

@CatScutt @educationgovuk That’s really good news

National pupil data suggest no evidence that ethnic minority students were more likely to be excluded compared to their White peers. This is good news. We should celebrate that, rather than perpetuating misinformation.

RT @SGorard: Poverty and SEND are closely linked to both exclusions from school and attainment at school, in England. Ethnicity per se is n…

RT @cbokhove: Excellent use of secondary data again. John is one of the most impressive academics I know.

@tes @JohnPeterJerrim And yet we rely on such observations to make decisions about teacher effectiveness for promotion, performance related pay and school ranking.

RT @tes: Exclusive: A warning from research to Ofsted about inspecting teaching quality – when expert observers assess the same lesson, the…

RT @RogersHistory: Teachers preferring to work as TAs because of the workload? Doesn’t surprise me. There were times I would have rather be…

RT @tes: Qualified teachers choosing to become TAs in the belief that they will have a better work-life balance 'acts as a stark reminder o…

@MelAinscow @bphillipsonMP Do we have evidence that inclusive education benefits the child, the teachers and other children?