The Brief: 19 April 2022

Episode Summary Monday 19 April - Top stories include: More than 1 in 3 teachers have no mental health training despite mental health ‘crisis’ among children Labour’s shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson faced heckles and chants New data shows secondary school teacher vacancies are at a five-year high Teacher unions call for reintroducing free COVID testing after new government guidance This week’s deep dive: The White Paper: Opportunities for All: Strong Schools with Great Teachers for Your Child We’ll also tell you what’s happening at HEP this week and what we’ve been watching, listening to, and reading! Watching - Why knowledge matters in the common core era Listening - A New Movement on Standing Rock on Code Switch Reading - Five things we’ve learned this term about pupil absence from the FFT Datalab Education blog Content links: https://www.brookings.edu/events/why-knowledge-matters-in-the-common-core-era/ https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2022/04/04/1090825396/a-new-movement-on-standing-rock?t=1649948033780 https://ffteducationdatalab.org.uk/2022/04/five-things-weve-learned-this-term-about-pupil-absence/