Martin Powell-Davies - teacher, trade unionist and socialist
Sharing views, information and resources for school staff, trade unionists and socialists.
Tuesday, 15 September 2020
After the Algorithm - the place of exams in a socialist curriculum
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The enforced government U-turns over the grading of this summer’s school exams has shone a spotlight on the inbuilt class inequality inheren...
Tuesday, 25 August 2020
A Safe Return to Schools? What does the Public Health England survey really show?
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With the new term rapidly approaching in England, a phoney debate is being created suggesting that school safety campaigners don’t recognise...
Tuesday, 18 August 2020
Tories forced into Exam grade U-turn - LBC debate
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After the Tories were forced by mounting youth protests into a U-turn over exam grading, I was invited to debate alongside Katharine Birbal...
Wednesday, 5 August 2020
From first wave to second? Boris Johnson’s covid failures
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Back in March, when the spread of the coronavirus pandemic was accelerating globally, the Socialist newspaper explained that “a newly-spread...
Saturday, 1 August 2020
The scientific evidence mounts: children DO transmit Covid-19
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As the school year came to an end, official opinion was increasingly of the view that schools would be able to open fully again in September...
Monday, 13 July 2020
Inadequate NEU Guidance on September Opening abandons the '5 tests'
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For the DfE to produce unsafe guidance on behalf of a Government determined to have all schools fully opened in September, regardless of t...
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