robert lewis stewart

[robert lewis stewart @rls1brnl]

@fraserihudghton @scotgov 'Let's park the politics', notes another reductive PISA 'analysis' post. Define 'slipping'? Define 'miles better'? Would like to be directed to any detailed, realistic, costed Scottish Tory education improvement strategy . . .

[robert lewis stewart @rls1brnl]

@JennyYoung2026 PISA points are a psychometric scale, NOT a measure of an individual child's curricular progress. Some 'commentators' have turned an illustrative statistical conversion into an apparently concrete educational fact. Not helpful. Another 'political' post that offers no strategy.

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@LHolt99 @GeorgeAdam Correction. Scottish secondaries ALREADY deliver a subject (knowledge)-based, schema focused, teacher-led/ student-centred approach to learning (with obvious inherent inconsistencies). Axes ARE being ground with PISA at the expense of genuine school/education improvement debate.

[robert lewis stewart @rls1brnl]

@GerryHassan Simply noting that the PISA 'debate' is reductive, simplistically 'political' in nature and critics/ 'experts' are quick to criticise without offering realstic, costed strategies identifying how to move forward.

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@IanMurrayMP 'NHS schools' 🤪

Labour's king of punctuation leads our nation's literacy recovery scheme 😉 . . .

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@NickGibbUK Scottish secondary schools deliver a subject (knowledge)-based, schema focused, teacher-led/ student-centred approach to learning (with obvious inherent inconsistencies). The 'knowledge debate' is one that exists in our education quangoland and not at the chalkface.

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@Miss_Snuffy 'Run up to me' 🤔
'100% believe in'🤔
'Run away'🤔
'Terrified of the social cost'🤔

Alexa- define hyperbole . . .

Performance. Not rational debate/ dialogue about a desire to improve the education we offer our young people.

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@MrMcEnaney Trust in our profession again takes a media hammering from cheap tit-for-tat 'dialogue' across groups with self-interested 'skin in the education system game' (or their own ideological agendas), but too far removed from the realities of classrooms to impact pupil attainment.

[robert lewis stewart @rls1brnl]

@SeonagM In similar fashion, then, if 'experts' ;-) claim specific knowledge deficit caused our PISA 'decline', surely they need to identify the missing knowledge, demonstrate CfE 'implementation' removed/reduced it, and EVIDENCE this deficit explains the PISA performance difference?

[robert lewis stewart @rls1brnl]

@staylorish @bellacaledonia @jackiekemp In similar fashion, then, if critics/'experts' claim specific knowledge deficit caused our PISA 'decline', surely they need to identify the missing knowledge, demonstrate CfE 'implementation' removed/reduced it, and evidence this deficit explains the PISA performance difference?

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@LHolt99 @alexmassie More gesturing. Wilful ignorance? If 'experts' claim specific knowledge deficit caused PISA decline, they need to identify the missing knowledge, demonstrate CfE 'implementation' removed or reduced it, and evidence that this deficit explains the PISA performance difference.

[robert lewis stewart @rls1brnl]

@CAILEAN_UK More simplistic politicising. If critics/'experts' ;-) claim specific knowledge deficit caused PISA decline, surely they need to identify the missing knowledge, demonstrate CfE 'implementation' removed/reduced it, and EVIDENCE this deficit explains PISA performance difference?

[robert lewis stewart @rls1brnl]

@the_whiskyist @staylorish I must never engage with commentators and 'experts' who push lazy and reductive ideas based on limited research. There, fixed it for you ;-)

[robert lewis stewart @rls1brnl]

@chrisdeerin Incontrovertible? If critics/'experts' claim specific knowledge deficit caused the PISA decline, surely they need to identify the missing knowledge, demonstrate CfE 'implementation' removed or reduced it, and evidence that this deficit explains the PISA performance difference.

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@HolyroodSources If observers/ critics/ 'experts' claim specific knowledge deficit caused the PISA decline, surely they need to identify the missing knowledge, demonstrate that CfE 'implementation' removed or reduced it, and evidence that this deficit explains the PISA performance difference.

[robert lewis stewart @rls1brnl]

@LHolt99 Caricature. If observers/ critics claim that specific knowledge deficit caused the PISA decline, surely they need to identify the missing knowledge, demonstrate CfE 'implementation' removed or reduced it, and evidence that this deficit explains the PISA performance difference.

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@MrMcEnaney CfE? Always been lost in quango land. Ask 12 'experts' what it 'means', get 13 different reponses. Secondary schools endeavour to offer a subject (knowledge)-based, schema-focused, teacher-led/ student-centred approach to learning (with inherent inconsistencies in delivery).

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@C_Hendrick Scottish secondary schools deliver a subject (knowledge)-based, schema focused, teacher-led/ student-centred approach to learning (with obvious inherent inconsistencies). The 'knowledge debate' is one that exists in our education quangoland and not at the chalkface.

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@Panatrope @gorbalsgoebbels No disagreement here that teaching phonics is an integral part of ensuring strong early literacy development . . .