goodbyemisterhunter
Robert Peal on education and reform
This was the blog of Robert Peal, secondary school history teacher, writer, and honorary research fellow at the think tank Civitas.
It was active from 2012 to 2014. During that time, Civitas published my book 'Progressively Worse: The burden of bad ideas in British schools'.
Though my current job precludes the joys of blogging, I do intend to re-enter the fray of edublogging someday.
Recent Posts
- Gove: The Great Reformer
- Gove’s unfinished business
- On the telly
- Scrap the ‘Quality of Teaching’ grade
- Ten lessons from TALIS
- Tristram Shambles
- A response to critics #5: it is right wing
- A response to critics #4: you weren’t there, man!
- A response to critics #3: independent schools
- A response to critics #2: data and dichotomies
- A response to critics #1: cherry picking
- Britain’s Education Establishment Persists in ‘Dumbing Down’ for Our Kids
- They were the future once
- Educating Islington: a study in the failure of progressive education
- The voice of the history blob
- Does Michael Wilshaw believe what he says?
- Some thoughts on the ‘Ofsted Style’
- The Battle of Ideas: History Wars
- Three shockers from the Guardian
- Eastern promise, Nordic myths and curry
- It takes someone very clever to be that stupid
- Cultivating Character? Yes. Teaching Character? No, no, no!
- High expectations, seventeenth century style
- Tough teachers, free schools and Berlin Walls
- Goodbye Matthew Hunter…
- Moist little man
- ADVERTISEMENT: The Gove Revolution ebook
- The Blob Has Run Schools For Decades. Not Any More
- When evidence doesn’t work
- Teachers are tiring of their old unions
- In defence of Mr Brainy
- Children with SMBD
- Gove listens
- Dear Blogger
- At Last: Gove Goes For the Culture of Excuses
- An open letter to the President of the Historical Association
- Why are independent schools so much better than state schools? #2
- Reflections on the Curriculum in History
- You don’t have to be a Tory to be a traditionalist in education
- Don’t they teach that at school?
- History Lessons for the 21st-Century Classroom
- When celebrities comment on schools
- Lies my teacher training taught me #3: most great learning happens in groups
- The Chaos Wrought By Progressive Education
- The Ebacc: If we reform exams, we must also reform teaching
- A modest proposal for a replacement of the A*-C metric
- Lies my teacher training taught me #2: Bad behaviour is your fault
- Lies my teacher training taught me #1: Don’t teach
- Lies my teacher training taught me
- School of hard knocks
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