Research

The government wants an inclusion base in every mainstream secondary but lacks basic data on what specialist facilities already exist – and Tes analysis reveals huge regional gaps in provision

Annual DfE data for pupil absence indicates overall improvement in the attendance rate, but severe absence continues to rise

The new Inclusive Teaching Framework, produced by a collaboration of cross-sector organisations, offers practitioners a needs-based approach to supporting students with SEND

Girls from lower-income backgrounds face a ‘double disadvantage’, University of Cambridge research shows

Year 4 saw the biggest increase in exclusions and suspensions last term, data submitted by more than 9,000 schools indicates

The popular assumption that watching TV with subtitles will help children to become better readers doesn’t hold true, write two reading researchers

Secondary schools with the best exam results have fewer students receiving both free school meals and SEN support than live in their catchment areas, report warns

An increased focus on inclusion and cost means some schools are revising their uniform policies. But teachers are divided and leaders are less convinced of the need for change, exclusive polling reveals

Teachers will need at least a 7 per cent increase over three years to keep pace with other professions, says National Foundation for Educational Research

School staff are also concerned about a lack of parent support on reading, research shows, while heads warn reading for pleasure has been ‘squeezed out of the curriculum’

A now-defunct government programme for ‘gifted and talented’ students could have ‘inadvertently reinforced educational inequalities’, say researchers – but they still want to see the idea revived

Too often, teachers’ action research projects fail to have the whole-school impact that they should, argues Sally Franklin. Here are five key questions to ask to put that right