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Nobody knows which schools are good

On September 22, 2019October 21, 2019 By Becky Allen6 Comments

This is the first part of the talk I gave at researchED London 2019. It is almost entirely based on work I completed with Dave Thomson at FFT Education Datalab. All the smart bits are his and the errors are mine! Have you ever read so much and thought about something so hard, that you …

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