Daisy Christodoulou is Director of Education at No More Marking and the author of I Can’t Stop Thinking About VAR.
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Will football fans ever be happy, or are they addicted to outrage? In April, Coventry City played Manchester United in the semi-final of the FA Cup. Coventry was denied a dramatic winner in the last few minutes of extra time by the decision of the video assistant referee (VAR). It was a wildly controversial moment
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On the edges of the City of London, a couple of miles from where I grew up, there’s a very famous cemetery: Bunhill Fields. When I was growing up, it was pretty clear who the three most famous tombs belonged to: John Bunyan, Daniel Defoe and William Blake. However, I am not sure any of
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When I trained as a teacher, seven years ago, these are some of the things I was taught: it’s better for pupils to discover a fact than to be told it. Children learn best working on authentic, real-world projects. Schools and traditional subject boundaries are silos which stifle the natural creativity we all have within
