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Lucy Heller: Government needs to run the system, not try to run schools

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By Jon Severs Verified
| Tes Verified
Lucy Heller does not usually do media interviews. Over her 22 years at Ark Schools - the 39-school multi-academy trust and charity with its fingerprints on a plethora of notable education organisations - there has been plenty she has wanted to talk about, but she’s tended to air her views in private: to ministers, to advisers and civil servants, to policy groups, to trusted peers, and to the hedge-fund backers of her organisation. It’s proven an effective strategy for wielding influence.
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The oversimplification of ADHD - and what we should do next

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By Jon Severs Verified
| Tes Verified
Gaia Scerif listens patiently to examples of the prevailing narratives about attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): diagnosis is spiralling upwards out of control, the condition is a social construct not a medical reality, mobile phones have caused an epidemic of symptoms, influencers are peddling false information on diagnostic criteria and driving hysteria, schools are full of kids using ADHD as an excuse to flout the behaviour policy or get out of anything they find boring… She...
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The education ‘faultlines’ some believe will undermine inclusion

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By Jon Severs Verified
| Tes Verified
This leader originally appeared in the Tes Daily newsletter. You can get the newsletter free to your inbox every weekday in term time - just sign up for a free account on Tes magazine and make sure you tick ‘Daily’ in your preferences. I know too many people who say they “failed” school. Some of them left with no qualifications, some of them got a few, some of them actually got many.
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