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A new report raises serious questions about activists influence over school policy, guidance and teacher training.
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When publicly funded campaigning organisations gain access to schools and influence over education, who scrutinises their activities, ideas and accountability?
The culture war in education is not simply a dispute over particular beliefs.
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It is a struggle over who has the authority to shape the values and outlook of the next generation.
Teachers? Parents? Government? Campaigning organisations?
And who decides where education ends and activism begins?
The latest edition of SUE highlights a new report on the influence and accountability of LGBT YS.
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We also examine why the culture war in schools is ultimately a struggle over who has the authority to educate our children.
#ScottishEducation
"Education Scotland is promoting the dogma of gender ideology across Scotland without due diligence and attention to the harms associated with this ideological approach." @ScotPAG
Education Scotland promotes ideology over reality. Will Scotland’s education system ever get its integrity back?
@ScotUnionEd @NoSecretLessons @Transgendertrd @WRNScotland @ebswa
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Knowledge is not an obstacle to education. It is its foundation.
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History, science, literature and mathematics open up worlds beyond children's immediate experience.
Scotland's curriculum must strengthen these disciplines, not subordinate them to fashionable causes.
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Scotland does not lack evidence of educational decline. It lacks the willingness to confront what has gone wrong.
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More reforms, more rhetoric and more excuses will not restore standards.
Our latest editorial argues for something better: evidence, knowledge and a serious commitment to educational renewal.
Scotland helped discover how to teach children to read. England acted on the evidence. Scotland failed to follow through.
Read here: bit.ly/sueReadingMatters
In Why Reading Matters, Sir Nick Gibb exposes how educational orthodoxy obstructed phonics reform.
When ideology trumps evidence, children pay the price.
@Miss_Snuffy @Fox_Claire @daisychristo
"An editorial in the Scotsman dubbed systematic phonics ‘the holy grail in education’. Its author suggested the success of this phonics scheme might spur an embrace of whole-class, teacher-led lessons more broadly but was clearly aware of the strength of ideological opposition. They sagely observed: ‘The modern orthodoxy of childcentred education is a phrase with great power [...] even though the Clackmannanshire and other research begs the question of whether this method actually delivers’."
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Carolyn Brown @cbbroony argues that Scottish Government guidance on transgender pupils risks undermining the fundamental purpose of education: developing children's understanding through truth, evidence and reason.
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@ScotPAG @ProtectTeach @Transgendertrd
"One primary harm resulting from the imposition of what is in effect a lie is the erosion of trust between teachers, children and their families. When adults lie to children, they risk damaging their credibility as reliable sources of information. Children who initially view teachers as authoritative may begin to question the veracity of all statements made in that educational context."
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Scotland gave the world Hume, Smith and Ferguson.
But how many Scottish pupils seriously encounter the ideas of the Enlightenment?
We celebrate our intellectual inheritance while too often neglecting to teach it.
A country cannot live indefinitely on the reputation of its past.
Never has humanity's intellectual inheritance been so accessible.
Great books. Historic archives. World-class lectures. International communities of learning.
The tragedy would be to possess all these opportunities while offering children an increasingly impoverished education.
The latest edition of SUE explores two questions at the heart of Scottish education.
Is education about opening minds or shaping opinions?
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The New Republic of Letters: reclaiming our intellectual inheritance.
Scotland’s Knowledge Mirage: when 'knowledge-rich' education becomes a vehicle for ideology.
#ScottishEducation
Has @kmckenna63 submitted his proposals to Education Scotland as part of the Curriculum Improvement Cycle?
I’d be ditching the PISA assessment and replace it with our own version. Let’s call it the Programme for Internal Scottish Horizons (PISH). @kmckenna63
Teacherless schools and no more books: why we shouldn't get too hung up about Scotland's bad PISA standings: my column in @heraldscotland
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PISA may not be perfect, but due to the Scottish Governments failure to collect meaningful data, other than marking its own work, we have to start somewhere. A close analysis of what works south of the border and what can be improved here should be the way forward.
English pupils did better in Pisa due to 'shallow' rote learning, says SNP's Jenny Gilruth
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There was a tradition in Scotland, albeit not perfect, of expanding an academic education to everyone. Of a cultured community, through the subjects. A tradition destroyed by the supporters of Curriculum for Excellence.
There is no chance of Scottish education improving until such time as the teaching unions are proscribed. The head of the EIS - the largest union - is proudly anti-knowledge and rigour, preferring a “holistic education for peace and prosperity”. FFS.
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Scotland faces a reading crisis. But the problem goes beyond literacy standards.
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@StuartWaiton and @pennyruthlewis argue for a return to explicit teaching, educational authority and the transmission of knowledge and culture.
@NickGibbUK @tombennett71 @jowilliams293
Reading provides access to humanity’s accumulated intellectual inheritance. Books allow individuals to enter into dialogue with people who lived centuries ago and in societies radically different from our own. Through reading we encounter ideas that challenge assumptions, expand horizons and deepen understanding
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When do children’s rights become a means of undermining parental authority?
In Why Transgender Ideology Matters, Jenny Cunningham examines how the language of rights is used to advance transgender ideology in Scottish schools, shifting authority from parents to the state.
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@ForWomenScot @AllianceLGB @genspect
Scotland’s educational system has lost itself somewhere in the bonnie hills and is sitting there dying from hypothermia and starvation. Dr Fotini Hamplova
A society can absorb many political mistakes. It can recover from poor economic decisions. But a generation of children denied the opportunity to acquire strong literacy, numeracy and intellectual confidence pays a price that can last a lifetime. @StuartWaiton
Scotland's declining educational performance demands more than another round of reforms.
Lindsay Paterson's latest book raises a fundamental question: has Curriculum for Excellence weakened the place of knowledge in our schools?
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Can standards recover without restoring it?
Scottish education can be transformed for the better.
This week's SUE newsletter explores how a renewed focus on knowledge, high standards and effective teaching can help our schools flourish.
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Featuring an excellent review of Lindsay Paterson's new book, Lessons from Scottish Schools: Why Knowledge Matters.