In paraphrase, Sean Harford's second question is: "Wouldn't students learn more if we just spent the last week of term hammering in more subject teaching, instead of this Participatory-nonsense?" The answer is found in the framework. [4 minutes to read] Last week, Ofsted's National Director kindly helped pin down what he foresees as the two... Continue Reading →

A big thank you to the National Director for taking the time to see me yesterday at Ofsted's Birmingham HQ, where he helped formulate the two key challenges to a Participatory Budgeting programme in schools. This is the answer to his first question on the puzzle of mapping PB to the curriculum. [4 minutes to read]... Continue Reading →