Imagine this scenario…

Dr. Jonathan Sharples explores evidence based practice. The headteacher of an inner–city primary school is stuck. She has just had a meeting with her senior management team to discuss how they can do more for their struggling readers. On the positive side, everyone...

Evidence in to action – winning hearts and minds

Much has been made of the need for teachers and politicians to make greater use of evidence when practising in the classroom and making policy. Oddly, both sides of almost every debate manage to pull some evidence out of their hat and then lambast the other side for...