That’s it, I’m no longer posting to this site. New blog posts can now be found over on Substack at Andrew Old’s Education Battleground, or sign up to receive them as a newsletter. Details of signing up for paid content can be found here. Since the last time I posted on this site the following […]
My blog posts now appear on andrewold.substack.com/ Please subscribe there, and consider pledging to pay for a paid subscription that will give you access to bonus material. A new post went up there recently. Two great links and one I wish was better. A blog post on cold-calling THE COLD-CALLING DEBATE: POTENTIAL PERILS, POTENTIAL SUCCESSES I’m not […]
My blog posts now appear on andrewold.substack.com/ Please subscribe there, and consider pledging to pay for a paid subscription that will give you access to bonus material. A new post has just gone up there: In part 1, I argued that our feelings were not as important for running a school (or a zoo) as is often thought. […]
My blog posts now appear on andrewold.substack.com/ Please subscribe there, and consider pledging to pay for a paid subscription that will give you access to bonus material. A new post has just gone up there: Matt Damon was wrong A few years ago, my local Odeon repeatedly showed me the trailer for “We Bought A Zoo”. After […]
My blog posts now appear on andrewold.substack.com/ Please subscribe there, and consider pledging to pay for a paid subscription that will give you access to bonus material. A new post has just gone up there: Two great links and one I wish was better. A guest essay in the New York Times arguing that mental […]
My blog will be moving to https://andrewold.substack.com/ after this post. Please subscribe now. The story so far In Part 1, I discussed a series of Observer stories about the DfE “keeping files” on the social media activity of their critics. These stories were based on responses to Subject Access Requests (SARs) made by the individuals […]
I have decided to delay, for a few days, my third post on the Observer’s story about the DfE’s alleged monitoring of education experts. This is because I wish to take a break from the Twitter drama that seems to accompany any mention of that issue. Instead, back to my regular series of posts about […]
My blog will be moving to https://andrewold.substack.com/ before the end of the month. Please subscribe now. The story so far In Part 1, I discussed a series of Observer stories about the DfE “keeping files” on the social media activity of their critics. These were based on responses to Subject Access Requests (SARs) made by the individuals […]
My blog will be moving to https://andrewold.substack.com/ before the end of the month. Please subscribe now. Strange stories about the DfE in the Observer In September, the Observer published a story entitled “Revealed: UK government keeping files on education critics’ social media activity“. Some of the details were about the shenanigans around speakers at DfE-funded conferences, and […]
My blog will be moving to https://andrewold.substack.com/ before the end of the month. Please subscribe now. Two great links and one I wish was better. An interesting perspective on teachers not making changes to their teaching Improving teaching: getting over the knowing-doing hump The unwillingness of teachers to change their practice is hardly an obscure problem. It’s […]
