About the Education Policy Institute

This will provide us with a much better sense of the scale of learning loss over the period of the pandemic and should also be used to inform the scale and targeting of the government's recovery plan. [...] The researchers, however, guard against expecting similar, positive results outside of New Orleans for a number of reasons including the low levels of attainment prior to the reforms, significant increases to both funding and collective action, and attention to the city following Hurricane Katrina and the fact that it is often easier to offer parents choice in urban areas as opposed to more rural. [...] Our discussions with the education and wellbeing sectors over recent months instead stressed the need for the government and schools to focus on the evidence of what works in everyday practice to improve attainment and wellbeing and to close the disadvantage gap. [...] The importance of fluency and proficiency in the English language is a prominent factor in the success of pupils with EAL and is reflected across a range of studies. [...] viii) Double the extra payments for teaching in “challenging areas” to £2,000 per year, extend them to existing teachers and focus them on the most disadvantaged 20-25 per cent of schools Given the evidence that teacher quality is the most important in-school driver of pupil outcomes, the government must increase efforts to ensure pupils at risk of lower attainment, in general and as a result of t.