The Learning Gap

Why Are 1.5 Million Children In England Failing To Attend School?

Schools in England are facing a growing attendance crisis. Professor Sonia Blandford takes a look at the data and suggests how school leadership teams can turn the problem around.

• 5 Mar

Can We Close The Gap For Poor White Boys?

A spoken language deficit in the early years is at the root of achievement for white working class boys. There are strategies to correct it, argues Jean Gross

• 15 Mar

Identifying Special Educational Needs In The Early Years

How do we know whether normal individual variation and differing speeds of maturation are masking a special need? Sal McKeown reports on an important new study

• 8 Jun

Young People On The Margins

How do they get there and how can we bring them back in?

• 7 Jun

Unlocking The Light In Every Child – The Luminos Fund

• 21 Mar

What do we do about the ‘Word Gap’?

• 16 Jul

Imagining the Closing of the Gap

• 4 Dec

Philosophy and Aspiration: Bringing Thinking Skills to Further Education

• 10 Sep

Closing the Gap for Looked-After Children – Reading for pleasure could hold the key

• 17 Apr

Breaking the Generational Cycle of Low Literacy

• 16 Oct

The Government MUST rethink its early years strategy

• 20 Jun

Attachment Based Mentoring

• 20 Jun

Biscuits or Banquets?

• 20 Jun

Nurturing young mathematicians

• 20 Jun

Mathematics Mastery

• 20 Jun

Maintaining momentum of SEND reform

• 20 Jun

Learning to Learn Mathematics

• 13 Mar

SEND reforms: Challenges for the early years

• 28 Oct