Evidence
Research and reports demonstrating the importance and value of receiving a Whole Education.
Backing the Future: Why Investing in Children is Good for us all
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This New Economics Foundation report argues that the UK has some of the worst social outcomes – within crime, mental ill health, and drug use – in Europe. The authors argue that while Governments cannot make children happy or ‘do well’ in life, their investments can, and do, have a strong influencing role.
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Education Epidemic
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'The Education Epidemic' by David H Hargreaves examines the factors that make a school successful and how schools can be supported in achieving excellent outcomes for their students.
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Education for All: The Future of Education and Training for 14-19 year-olds
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This report argues that reform in education has been patchy and has lacked overall vision in terms of what it is seeking to achieve. The report seeks to identify what form 'education for all' should take and addresses the question of what a young person emerging from compulsory education should look like.
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Enquiring Minds 4th year report: Innovative approaches to curriculum reform
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This report synthesises the findings from the Enquiring Minds project. It focuses on the changing role of the teacher in innovative curriculum design.
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Enquiring Minds Year 3 report: Schools, knowledge and educational change
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This report presents the findings and conclusions of the Enquiring Minds project to date, reflecting particularly upon what and how knowledge should be taught in schools in the 21st century.
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Grit: The Skills for Success and How They are Grown
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This report looks at the importance of life skills in education and what it means to be a well-educated child in the 21st Century.
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Increasing Participation: Understanding Young People who do not Participate in Education or Training at 16 and 17
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DCSF evidence shows that, in order for young people to re-engage and for the policy of raising the participation age in education to 18 to be a success, there is a need for provision to be appropriate in terms of content, delivery and timing.
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Learning to Fail: How Society Lets Young People Down
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This book explores the issues of youth unemployment, social aspiration and the role schools and Government can play in addressing such issues.
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LSE Centre for Economic Performance Centre Piece 2003
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Leon Feinstein states that there is evidence that, even before children reach nursery school, the effects of class difference are already apparent.
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Narrowing the gap in outcomes for vulnerable groups: a review of the research evidence
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The National Foundation of Educational Research has conducted research into how outcomes for children from vulnerable backgrounds can be improved in education.
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Our Global Future: How can Education meet the Challenges of Change?
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Research conducted by MORI for DEA highlights that whilst 93% of young people think it is important to learn about issues affecting people’s lives in different parts of the world, only around half (56%) have had the opportunity in school to do this.
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Perspectives on early years education and digital technologies
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Presented as a collection of three papers, this document asks how digital technologies can add to the early learning experiences of pre-school children; an age-group which is often overlooked.
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Sinking and Swimming: Understanding Britain's Unmet Needs
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This report explores why some people are able to cope with shocks and setbacks, while other people cannot. What do people need to achieve psychological well-being and material prosperity in life and how can education help?
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The Good Childhood Inquiry
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The Good Childhood Inquiry is the UK's first independent national inquiry into childhood, contributed to by over 30,000 people – including over 20,000 children of all ages and in many different, often marginalised, circumstances.
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The Leitch Review of Skills: Prosperity for all in the Global Economy
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The Leitch Review was established in December 2004 to consider the skills profile the UK should aim to achieve by 2020 in order to maximise growth, productivity and social justice.
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The UNESCO Global Report on Education for Sustainable Development
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At the mid-way point of the UN decade of Education for Sustainable Development, this report highlights the value of education for sustainable development in a whole education.
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