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Which Way Now for UK Gifted Education: Response to Current Government Policy I
This is the third part of a short series of posts about the future direction of gifted education here in the United Kingdom. The series marks the formal establishment of GT Voice, the new UK-based...
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Where is New Zealand’s Excellence Gap? – Part 1
This post is my contribution to the Blog Tour for New Zealand’s Gifted Awareness Week 2012. It asks: Whether New Zealand is too ready to adopt proxies for educational disadvantage and If that hinders...
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Where is New Zealand’s Excellence Gap? – Part 2
This is Part 2 of a Post for the Blog Tour associated with New Zealand’s Gifted Awareness Week 2012. If you missed Part 1 you can find it here. Deciles I have set aside until now any discussion of...
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‘Unlocking Emergent Talent’
. This post reviews ‘Unlocking Emergent Talent’, a recent publication about support for low income high ability students by the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) in the United States, and...
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Gifted Phoenix Twitter Round-Up Volume 12: Curriculum, Assessment, Fair...
. This is the second section of my retrospective review of the Gifted Phoenix Twitter feed covering the period from February 24 to July 7 2013. It complements the first section, which concentrated on...
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A Summer of Love for English Gifted Education? Episode 3: Improving Fair...
. This post is a critical examination of policy and progress on improving progression for the highest attainers from disadvantaged backgrounds to selective universities, especially Oxford and...
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‘Poor but Bright’ v ‘Poor but Dim’
This post explores whether, in supporting learners from disadvantaged backgrounds, educators should prioritise low attainers over high attainers, or give them equal priority. Introduction Last...
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Closing England’s Excellence Gaps: Part One
@GiftedPhoenix very useful summary – the importance of both high achievement and subject choice at GCSE needs more investigation. — Anna Vignoles (@AnnaVignoles) September 14, 2014 Catching up on an...
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Closing England’s Excellence Gaps: Part 2
Catching up on an excellent blog by @GiftedPhoenix on closing the excellence gap for disadvantaged high attainers: http://t.co/FQXtDMyfCg — Julie McCulloch (@juliecmcculloch) September 17, 2014...
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Beware the ‘short head': PISA’s Resilient Students’ Measure
This post takes a closer look at the PISA concept of ‘resilient students’ – essentially a measure of disadvantaged high attainment amongst 15 year-olds – and how this varies from country to country....
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Excellence Gaps Quality Standard: Version 1
This post is the first stage of a potential development project. It is my initial ‘aunt sally’ for a new best fit quality standard, intended to support schools and colleges to close performance gaps...
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The Politics of Selection: Grammar Schools and Disadvantage
This post considers how England’s selective schools are addressing socio-economic disadvantage. Another irrelevant Norwegian vista by Gifted Phoenix It is intended as an evidence base against which to...
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How Well Do Grammar Schools Perform With Disadvantaged Students?
This supplement to my previous post on The Politics of Selection compares the performance of disadvantaged learners in different grammar schools. It adds a further dimension to the evidence base set...
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Addressed to Teach First and its Fair Education Alliance
. This short opinion piece was originally commissioned by the TES in November. My draft reached them on 24 November; they offered some edits on 17 December. Betweentimes the Fair Education Alliance...
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The most able students: Has Ofsted made progress?
. On a quick skim, Ofsted's new most able report looks much stronger than its predecessor. Full analysis asap http://t.co/kHYQo5Q0Sz — GiftedPhoenix (@GiftedPhoenix) March 4, 2015 This post considers...
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Fair Access Trends in DfE’s Destinations Data 2010-13
. This is a brief supplementary post about progression by FSM students to selective universities. In preparing my last post, I had occasion to look again at DfE statistics on KS5 student destinations....
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Protecting pupil premium for high attainers
. This post continues the campaign I have been waging against the Fair Education Alliance, a Teach First-inspired ‘coalition for change in education’ over a proposal in its Report Card 2014 to halve...
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The problem of reverse excellence gaps
. This post compares the performance of primary schools that record significant proportions of disadvantaged high attainers. It explores the nature of excellence gaps, which I have previously defined...
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Missing Talent
. This post reviews the Sutton Trust’s Research Brief ‘Missing Talent’, setting it in the context of the Trust’s own priorities and the small canon of research on excellence gaps in the English...
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