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Tag: teachers
Report: Teachers’ Unions Won Big This Week. They’re Just Getting Started
by Rivkah Brown
The Tories' U-turn on schools was not merely the product of circumstance, but months of teacher organising. Now, with a multiplying membership and renewed confidence, unions are setting their sights beyond the pandemic to transforming their entire profession. Rivkah Brown reports.
Opinion: Teachers Are Rediscovering Their Collective Power
by James McAsh
Across the country, in meetings ranging from dozens to thousands, teachers and teaching assistants are standing up for safety and learning that there is power in a union, writes primary school teacher James McAsh.
GE2019: ‘Does Anyone Care?’ Teachers Are Asking You to Vote to End Child Poverty This Winter
by James McAsh
Last week a seven-year-old girl wrote her letter to Father Christmas. She asked only for a home, some food, and a nice doll. “Can you help?” she wrote. “Mam wants us to be all together.” Our votes on 12 December will determine whether or not Father Christmas makes her wish come true.
Why Are Teachers Taking Action Against SATs?
by James McAsh
While bigots across the land are seething that primary pupils are taught the existence of LGBT people, the National Education Union is taking on the real menace in the classroom: SATs. James McAsh explains why.
A ‘Neu’ Union?
by James McAsh
On 15 November, members of the National Education Union teaching in state-funded schools and sixth form colleges launched a ballot on the issues of teacher pay and school funding. The hope is that this will be the first step towards nation-wide strike action.
If Teach First Wants to Solve Inequality, It Should Reconsider Its Corporate Bedfellows
by Danny Rees
What links Goldman Sachs and an inner-city school serving a low-income community? The answer is troubling one.
5 Reasons Teachers are Going on Strike
by Adam Robertson
Teachers across England are going on strike tomorrow. But during what seems like a golden age for teaching standards, why is industrial action necessary?