Daisy Christodoulou: I'm saying knowledge is good

Daisy Christodoulou is the Director of Education at No More Marking. Daisy was at the forefront of a movement of bloggers and thinkers which sought to change how teachers thought about student learning, and what they did in the classroom. Her 2013 book, Seven Myths about Education, contrasted good practice - as described by school inspection reports - with the evidence around how people learn.Daisy trained with Teach First, worked at Ark Schools on curriculum and assessment design, then moved to No More Marking, where she's working to make assessment faster, more accurate and more useful.She recently published her fourth book, I can't stop thinking about VAR, which applies her wisdom about assessment to the football field.We discussed:Why she wrote Seven Myths: what Ofsted reports showed about perceptions of effective practice in the early 2000s, why finger puppets aren't a great way to teach Romeo and Juliet, and the initial reception the book hadHer role at ARK Schools and what King Solomon Academy was likeMichael Gove as a Maoist, and his lasting significance for English schoolsThe academies programme, the shifting role of trusts, and whether it would ever be possible to unwind academisationHer advice for countries trying to improve their school systemsDaisy was as thoughtful, entertaining and erudite as ever, but I particularly enjoyed her fair-mindedness, as she jumped to offer both argument and counter-argument unprompted.