Tag: Teach First

Averages and tails: What sort of pupils benefit most from Teach First participants?

On By Becky Allen1 Comment

When Joe Kirby and I presented data on whether Teach First is working at ResearchED2013 earlier this month, the best audience question came from Arthur Baker who wanted to know whether the improvements in average school attainment following Teach First participation meant that the most disadvantaged students were benefiting, or not. This question struck a …

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How can we learn if Teach First is working?

On By Becky Allen2 Comments

Last week I published a paper I wrote with Jay Allnutt about the impact of Teach First on GCSE attainment. We received a large amount of feedback on the paper, via a seminar presentation at BERA conference, comments on a blog I wrote, twitter and email. Rather than simply present these research findings at researched2013, I …

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