For the second season of Sold a Story, Emily Hanford and her team are focusing on Direct Instruction! Sold a Story 2: What Happened to Teaching youtu.be/4YDq-AB_d2c?si=s5qr…

Wales has the UK's worst school results and ITV investigated why... youtu.be/1FSIfPjXGeE?is=7sWn…

Conducting meaningful research is a huge undertaking. I'd prefer to take the word of a team of academic & practicing experts in the specific domain especially when they are professional enough to admit that results were not what they expected, prompting them to change course

Yes, but governors must be able to justify it

I have no idea what Tom's mindfulness credentials might be. The credentials of Dr Lucy Foulkes however, whose interview I posted, appear to be impeccable as regards mindfulness training in schools.

Articles like this perhaps

The flyer for the event says that pupils' attire "must reflect your nationality or family heritage" I can't think how much more literally she could have interpreted this.

An excellent introduction to any article arguing for a more rigorously scientific and evidence-informed approach to the teaching of reading. Without looking it up, who do you think wrote it?