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Bernard Andrews @bernardandrews.bsky.social · 2d

A short post (~500 words) on a distinction that's often overlooked, but is extremely important, especially in discussions around SEND.

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How we confuse two different meanings of 'typical' and why it is crucial for SEND discussions

Correlation is not characterisation

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Bernard Andrews @bernardandrews.bsky.social · 3d

How we confuse two different meanings of 'typical' and why it is crucial for SEND discussions

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How we confuse two different meanings of 'typical' and why it is crucial for SEND discussions

Correlation is not characterisation

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Bernard Andrews @bernardandrews.bsky.social · 3d

How we confuse two different meanings of 'typical' and why it is crucial for SEND discussions

open.substack.com/pub/bernarda...

How we confuse two different meanings of 'typical' and why it is crucial for SEND discussions

Correlation is not characterisation

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Ben Newmark @bennewmark.bsky.social · 6d

I just want it to be normal to say "ah this kid's a bit eccentric but that's normal for humans and nothing to worry about."

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 6d

People recognised as refugees fleeing persecution & granted the right to live in the UK to be denied the right to be joined safely by their spouse & children.

This Labour govt is a moral void, a stinking darkness, an empty hollow of cowardice & contempt. #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights

People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’

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Sky News @news.sky.com · 14d

Donald Trump is 'racist, sexist and Islamophobic', says Sadiq Khan amid feud with US president

Sadiq Khan has branded Donald Trump "racist, sexist, misogynistic" and "Islamophobic" following the US president's latest attack on London.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 15d

Ed Davey, "It's so frustrating, so infuriating that Nigel Farage gets such an easy ride from the media"

"As he lies, as he divides, the BBC and others given Farage so much time and attention"

"But they never hold him to account for all the damage he has already done"

"The damage of Brexit"

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Bernard Andrews @bernardandrews.bsky.social · 15d

I agree with others that it's not so much the curriculum that makes it inclusive, so much as the ends. We have a very narrow idea of what counts as success at school. At "best" it's often some patronising 'good "for you"' type approach.

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The varieties of the meritorious

In education, we have an extremely narrow idea of what is valuable

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RR @rlrossi64.bsky.social · 17d

If you were tasked with designing a fully inclusive curriculum, where would you start? What is absolutely key? Please repost for coverage. #send

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Bernard Andrews @bernardandrews.bsky.social · 15d

I agree with others that it's not so much the curriculum that makes it inclusive, so much as the ends. We have a very narrow idea of what counts as success at school. At "best" it's often some patronising 'good "for you"' type approach.

open.substack.com/pub/bernarda...

The varieties of the meritorious

In education, we have an extremely narrow idea of what is valuable

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 20d

think if you're broadly a centrist and were suuuuuper concerned about attacks on free speech from the left and so you decided to give the right a hearing then you need to realise you were taken for QUITE the ride (and don't really have anyone to blame but yourself)

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Bernard Andrews @bernardandrews.bsky.social · 20d

I'm not completely anti-technology, so I've decided that I'm going to call myself a 'Ludd-lite'.

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Moyeen Islam @moyeen.bsky.social · 21d

This. 1000 times this. It’s like we don’t count.

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Bennie Kara @benniekara.bsky.social · 21d

This is why ‘neutrality’ or whatever Badenoch thinks she’s doing here is dangerous. People don’t hear both sides when someone is neutral - that’s a misconception. What they hear is ‘that was okay’. A massive problem in politics. It moves the Overton Window.

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 22d

Badenoch totally unwilling to condemn Musk for seeking to incite violence.

Gutless leadership... I mean it's not even leadership.. it's just gutless

Zoë Grünewald @zoegrunewald.bsky.social · 22d

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Bernard Andrews @bernardandrews.bsky.social · 22d

The UK has militarily intervened for far worse reasons.

BBC News - Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, UN commission of inquiry says
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Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, UN commission of inquiry says

The panel finds that four of the five genocidal acts defined under international law have been carried out against Palestinians during the war.

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Bernard Andrews @bernardandrews.bsky.social · 22d

BBC News - Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, UN commission of inquiry says
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Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, UN commission of inquiry says

The panel finds that four of the five genocidal acts defined under international law have been carried out against Palestinians during the war.

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Prof Bob Davis @rokewood.bsky.social · 24d

But for the unmitigated personal & family tragedy of #CharlieKirk’s assassination, Steve Hilton’s tribute to him on BBCWorldatOne #BBCwtw is a piece of ghastly whitewash political theatre: erasing entirely his ethno-nationalist theocratic supremacism. & where is the journalistic challenge here??

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Bernard Andrews @bernardandrews.bsky.social · 24d

The release of the new Ofsted framework is unfortunately a good time to repost this from the archives:
@tesmagazine.bsky.social

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School accountability: should we let the courts decide?

We need a court of education to judge schools, says Bernard Andrews - Ofsted, despite its tinkering, will never work

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DamsonEd @damsoned.bsky.social · 24d

This piece of writing is bewildering in many ways…

The phrase “dangerously rebellious” is a curious way of describing colleagues who you happen to disagree with. 🫣🤔🤷‍♀️

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Schools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social · 26d

🪞 'Used honestly and effectively, Ofsted's toolkits have a great potential to reduce anxiety, sharpen self-awareness and strengthen leadership'

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 24d

“Bustling crowds wait for overwhelmingly non-white shop staff to serve up their alcohol, never wondering about who would turn up to scrub Westminster station clean of their urine at the end of the day.” www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-t...

Tommy Robinson’s march was a drunken, coked-up mess

He claimed the world was watching, but most of London barely noticed - and much of what was on view was appalling

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Bernard Andrews @bernardandrews.bsky.social · 26d

My criticism is aimed at the explanatory mechanism. I'm not denying that to get good at something you should practice it.

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Bernard Andrews @bernardandrews.bsky.social · 26d

No I haven't. I'm just asking what's the solution that avoids this paradox. It's not enough to simply say, it's more complicated.

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Bernard Andrews @bernardandrews.bsky.social · 26d

Haha you can't just fudge it and say 'it's more complicated than that'! You have to spell out the mechanism - and you will then find by solving this problem you walk into another. It's a logical problem at the heart of the mechanical model of learning.

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Bernard Andrews @bernardandrews.bsky.social · 27d

‘Retrieval' practice:

We're asked a question, and we retrieve the relevant information from the memory.

But how do we know what information to retrieve? Don't we need to know the right answer in order to retrieve it? But then this ‘explanation’ presupposes the very skill it’s trying to explain.

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Bernard Andrews @bernardandrews.bsky.social · 27d

‘Retrieval' practice:

We're asked a question, and we retrieve the relevant information from the memory.

But how do we know what information to retrieve? Don't we need to know the right answer in order to retrieve it? But then this ‘explanation’ presupposes the very skill it’s trying to explain.

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