The Eleven-Plus Never Died. It Just Moved Somewhere You Weren’t Looking.
Most people in Britain carry a vague mental image of the eleven-plus as a historical artefact – something that happened…
Education
The Ruler That Never Had Any Marks On It
Somewhere in Cambridge in the 1850s, an examiner sat down with a pile of papers, a cold cup of tea,…
The Knowledge That Lives in Your Hands
A medieval master glassblower knew things he could not tell you. He could not write them down, draw a diagram,…
The Country That Banned the Science of Learning (And Then Accidentally Invented
In 1936, the Soviet government looked at educational psychology and decided it was a bourgeois conspiracy. Intelligence testing, developmental research,…