Mission 44 and Downing Street 

Recently, out of the blue, I received an email from Number 10 Downing Street inviting me to attend a round table with the Prime Minister, to discuss ‘Opportunity for all: how can we make sure all young people are supported to succeed at school’. At any time, an invitation such as this would have been something I would have been delighted and excited to receive. This area of discussion, however, is something I have been thinking about, writing about and through the lens of ‘Learning without Limits’ and latterly Rethinking Assessment have been agitating about, for over twenty years.

Teaching Commission Roundtable discussion

We asked colleagues to consider their responses to three key questions as part of this Teaching Commission roundtable: what are the factors affecting the recruitment and retention of global majority teachers…