Category: FORUM
Rendered invisible
In our second blog highlighting the shortcomings of a recent EEF study on student grouping, Perpetua Kirby shines a light on what ‘attainment-focused’ research doesn’t see.
MORECall for papers: The Moment of ‘76
Contributions are invited for the autumn 2026 number of FORUM (68.3) for which the copy date is Monday 20 July. The number will appear online at the beginning of November with a hard copy version available soon afterwards.
MOREDoes the Student Grouping Study really support a call to back setting?
Rachel Marks looks closely at a recent and much-reported EEF study. She finds it falls far short of the headline claims
MOREFORUM Blog March Rage for order
With Reform UK polling strongly, Patrick Yarker commends the spring number of FORUM, whose lead article examines the malign phenomenon of contemporary right-wing populism.
MOREThe futures of teaching
Will the work of teaching become increasingly standardised as an individual teacher’s agency is further constrained?
MOREFORUM 68.2 Summer 2026 – Call for papers
Special issue: ‘The futures of teaching’, co-edited by Professor Viv Ellis and Professor Marie Brennan
MOREComprehensive education: completed or defeated? The Caroline Benn Memorial Lecture 2025
FORUM and the Socialist Education Association co-sponsor the annual Caroline Benn Memorial Lecture. Patrick Yarker gives an account of this year’s event.
MOREUnanswerable evidence?
The Autumn number of FORUM is now available. Patrick Yarker outlines how its contributors examine the purposes of education at a time of widespread child poverty and many another crisis.
MOREJust teach the thing that we tell you
Teachers are increasingly being required to use ‘standardised curricula’. Patrick Yarker considers a recent National Education Union report into a trend which is corroding professionalism.
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