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At a time when educational debates are often driven by political fashion or ideological enthusiasm, [Lindsay Paterson] has consistently insisted on the importance of evidence, institutional memory and historical perspective.
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The book is excellent, well worth reading and chatting about with friends, colleagues or parents. Scottish education is a pale shadow of what it was prior to, the misnamed, CfE.
Scotland's declining educational performance demands more than another round of reforms.
Lindsay Paterson's latest book raises a fundamental question: has Curriculum for Excellence weakened the place of knowledge in our schools?
Read here: bit.ly/sue175fh
Can standards recover without restoring it?
When children’s interests are subverted to serve the political and ideological agendas of those wearing the mantle of children’s rights advocates, it becomes imperative to defend parents’ rights to raise their children according to their own and wider society’s beliefs and values.
Reading provides access to humanity’s accumulated intellectual inheritance. Books allow individuals to enter into dialogue with people who lived centuries ago and in societies radically different from our own. Through reading we encounter ideas that challenge assumptions, expand horizons and deepen understanding
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Scotland faces a reading crisis. But the problem goes beyond literacy standards.
Read here: bit.ly/sueReadingMatters
@StuartWaiton and @pennyruthlewis argue for a return to explicit teaching, educational authority and the transmission of knowledge and culture.
@NickGibbUK @tombennett71 @jowilliams293
When do children’s rights become a means of undermining parental authority?
In Why Transgender Ideology Matters, Jenny Cunningham examines how the language of rights is used to advance transgender ideology in Scottish schools, shifting authority from parents to the state.
Read here: bit.ly/sueIdeologyMatters
@ForWomenScot @AllianceLGB @genspect
Scotland’s educational system has lost itself somewhere in the bonnie hills and is sitting there dying from hypothermia and starvation. Dr Fotini Hamplova
A society can absorb many political mistakes. It can recover from poor economic decisions. But a generation of children denied the opportunity to acquire strong literacy, numeracy and intellectual confidence pays a price that can last a lifetime. @StuartWaiton
Scotland's declining educational performance demands more than another round of reforms.
Lindsay Paterson's latest book raises a fundamental question: has Curriculum for Excellence weakened the place of knowledge in our schools?
Read here: bit.ly/sue175fh
Can standards recover without restoring it?
Scottish education can be transformed for the better.
This week's SUE newsletter explores how a renewed focus on knowledge, high standards and effective teaching can help our schools flourish.
Read here: bit.ly/sue175news
Featuring an excellent review of Lindsay Paterson's new book, Lessons from Scottish Schools: Why Knowledge Matters.
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It is indeed not for the state to dictate the conversations between parents & their children. This is one of the most appalling pieces of legislation to come before Parliament @SpeechUnion @BinTheBill_ @bindelj @murdo_fraser @WRNScotland @WomensRightsNet @CMochan
This is one of the most illiberal, invasive and appalling pieces of legislation ever to come before Parliament.
The Conversion Practices Bill isn’t about preventing gay children from being abusively coerced into being straight. That is already rightly illegal.
It will criminalise well-intentioned conversations between parents and gender-confused children, discussions with therapists, and religious leaders sharing their faith’s teachings with their congregations.
A parent could face up to five years in prison simply for trying to dissuade their child from embarking on irreversible, dangerous and life-changing medical pathways before the age of 18.
In his letter to the pre-legislative scrutiny committee, the Minister for Equalities attempts to reassure us that the bill respects “freedom of religion and parental rights”.
It does no such thing.
So much for the Labour Government’s promise to tread more lightly on our lives. It is not the state’s role to dictate what conversations parents can have with their young children around the dinner table.
Parents know best — not ministers.
Read the letter below 👇
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Impartiality in education is vital yet so misunderstood sometimes wilfully, and sometimes because of the influence of Critical Race Theory & Identity politics which work to disavow antisemitism as a new form of racism. But schools should be treating antisemitism as a severe breach of a vital ethical code: treat all in school with curtesy and politeness (even if you don't like or respect what they think). A question of moral courage and practical consistency on part of the adults rather than more training: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c623…. . fyi @ScotUnionEd @ProtectTeach
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Right from the start DDU has stressed the need for far greater concern and enforcment of Sections 406 & 407 of the Education Act. There are still too many schools where leaders/staff think hitching 'being kind' to using partisan political content (from open borders to trans ideology) is ok - it really isn't. This is a good start, but teacher training needs radical overhaul. @ScotUnionEd @ProtectTeach thetimes.com/uk/education/ar…
Well done to the SUE team at #BattleFest with panel contributions across the weekend, @pennyruthlewis, @StuartWaiton, Jenny Cunningham, Linda Murdoch and Simon Knight!
The weekend may be over but you can find us online: bit.ly/sueHOME
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Not every instance of poor behaviour is a mental health issue. When schools replace clear expectations and consequences with therapeutic language, they risk undermining teacher authority.
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Disruptive behaviour is undermining learning across our schools. Yet education policymakers rarely question whether child-centred approaches have weakened teacher authority.
Effective behaviour policies in every school would be a better start.
Misogyny has no place in Scotland.
A new £1 million Respect Fund will give every school in Scotland resources to challenge sexism, educate young people and promote equality.
#SNP26
ALT Stack of open books with text promising schools resources to combat misogyny at SNP's 2026 Annual National Conference.