Research Summaries Database

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Title	Author	Category	Publisher
A comparison of academic achievement in independent and state schools January 2016	Dr Francis Ndaji, Dr John Little and Professor Robert Coe	Assessment Education research Equality and diversity +6 more	Centre For Evaluation and Monitoring
Refocusing assessment March 2017	Dr. Sarah Jenkins	Assessment View all	National Foundation for Educational Research
Democracy and education: an introduction to the philosophy of education 1919	John Dewey	Education theory	Macmillan
So much reform, so little change; the persistence of failure in urban schools April 2008	Professor Charles M. Payne	Education theory	Harvard Education Publishing Group
Career development policy and practice: the Tony Watts reader 2015	Professor Tony Watts	Education theory View all	High Fliers Research
Where good ideas come from? The natural history of innovation 2010	Steven Johnson	Education theory	Penguin Books
The knowledge: how to rebuild our world from scratch April 2014	Dr Lewis Dartnell	Education theory	Penguin Books
Active learning through formative assessment November 2008	Shirley Clarke	Education theory	Hodder Education
Progressively worse: the burden of bad ideas 2014	Robert Peal	Education theory	Civitas
What every parent needs to know: how to help your child get the most out of primary school 2014	Tony Young and Miranda Thomas	Education theory	Penguin Books
How to run an Academy school 2014	Katie Paxton-Doggett	Education theory	Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators
What your Nth grader needs to know 2008-2015	Dr E.D Hirsch, Jr	Curriculum planning Curriculum/subject related Early years and foundation stage +7 more	Core Knowledge Foundation
Cleverlands: the secrets behind the success of the world’s education superpowers December 2016	Lucy Crehan	International policy View all	Unbound
Language at the speed of sight 2017	Mark Seidenberg	Literacy and numeracy View all	Basic Books