Hettie Burn

Researching education policy @IOE_London | previously Economics PhD @iseressex, @UniofOxford, @hgse, and five years teaching in UK state schools @TeachFirst

[Hettie Burn @hettieburn]

Lastly - given my usual wheelhouse is policy evaluation - if you'd like some quantitative evidence about the impact of the policy and the difficult position that teachers were put in, check out my paper (with
@rabe_b & @LauraFumagall17 ) here: https://t.co/zof8cYOB6W 💛

[Hettie Burn @hettieburn]

In 2020 and 2021, the Department for Education in England implemented widely controversial policies on student grading, and in-so-doing laid bare some of the deep tensions and inequalities in our existing system. This week I published a book chapter on it: https://t.co/7E3GeHceRT

[Hettie Burn @hettieburn]

The wider book explores the ethical dilemmas teachers face daily. Such discussions are vital, given the hundreds of decisions educators make, often balancing individual students' needs against their peers'. Yet, ed-ethics remains sidelined in our training. This can change.

[Laura McInerney @miss_mcinerney]

Gosh this is beautiful. A love letter to teaching and all that good and hard and wonderful and brutal about it.
Do read it. And if you’re pondering becoming a teacher, read it twice, then apply.

[Hettie Burn @hettieburn]

@Demaj_X @rabe_b @LauraFumagall17 Thanks Xhiselda!!

[Hettie Burn @hettieburn]

⭐️New article alert!⭐️

We look at what happened when teachers like me were given the difficult task of assigning GCSE grades in 2020, particularly on outcomes for ethnic minority pupils. Now in Labour Economics journal, with @rabe_b
and @LauraFumagall17

https://t.co/zof8cYO3ho

[Hettie Burn @hettieburn]

@Kalyan_KumarK @rabe_b @LauraFumagall17 Awh thanks Kalyan! Hope to see you soon!

[Centre for Ed Policy & Equalising Opportunities @CEPEO_UCL]

The will-they-won't-they issue of so-called “rip off” degrees is back!

A thread! 🧵

[Hettie Burn @hettieburn]

Late to the party, but this is really great on the new early years entitlements in England -

Most benefits are expected to come from longer-term effects on the children themselves. Yet, because it targets working families, these will not be the most disadvantaged. 🤯 indeed.

[Claire Crawford @claire_l_crawf]

My takeaways from today's @NAOorguk report:
🧮It's really hard to estimate parental demand - we just don't have good evidence for 0-2 yr olds
🤯DfE expects 2/3 of the benefits to arise from kids' participation in early ed not parents' labour supply
Check out my @CEPEO_UCL blog 👇

[Hettie Burn @hettieburn]

Sizeable effects in standardised tests like GCSEs are rare even for contemporaneous interventions, let alone something that occurred before children were 5 years old. This is important news!

[Institute for Fiscal Studies @TheIFS]

NEW: Sure Start, England’s first large programme to provide holistic support to families with children under five, greatly improved disadvantaged children’s GCSE results.

Read @nridpathecon @Sarah_Cattan @carneiro_econ’s report, funded by @NuffieldFound: https://t.co/NiHZzVES3W

[Sule Alan @sulealan_econ]

Just published in the AER! Our new paper shows the importance of igniting children's curiosity in the classroom. We show how heightened curiosity boosts knowledge retention and fuels peer learning in the classroom. @EUI_EU @JPAL @BilkentEconDept

[Hettie Burn @hettieburn]

'Ethics is no less an issue in education than in medicine, so shouldn’t teachers, like physicians, have a framework that helps them navigate moral dilemmas at work?' Big fan of Meira Levinson's work https://t.co/VHxK6aMsp7

[Hettie Burn @hettieburn]

@lukesibieta 👍 still need to finish a few things off but I'll email you in the next week or so!

[Hettie Burn @hettieburn]

This is *very* related to a paper I am just finishing! Relieved but also saddened that my findings about boys in Wales align closely with these. @lukesibieta I may have a mechanism for you

[Philippa_Perry @Philippa_Perry]

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[Sam Freedman @Samfr]

Response from one of the largest Multi Academy Trusts to government plans to introduce a "minimum service level" re: teacher strikes.

"The policy in its current form is wrong in principle and in its details and likely to be self- defeating in practice."

https://t.co/aPJWaGjbIA

[Times Higher Education @timeshighered]

Opinion: Predicted grades erode equity. The UK should reconsider abolishing them
We must research the impact of predicted grades on students’ well-being and learning behaviour at a critical stage in their education, says Luke Ellmers https://t.co/WQFUfKwJOr

[University of Essex @Uni_of_Essex]

Tackling inequalities involves government polices being influenced by robust, world-leading research.

For over 30 years @MiSoC_Essex has been a powerhouse for delivering just that.

Read more here: https://t.co/sx7HySRW8Q

@iseressex @ESRC

[ISER @iseressex]

Free school meals ‘cut obesity and help reading skills’ in London, our new ⁦@ESRC⁩ @MiSoC_Essex⁩ ⁦@NuffieldFound⁩ study by ⁦@AngusHolford⁩ ⁦@rabe_b⁩ ⁦@ResearchEssex⁩ https://t.co/MsP7B2vWTd