New long read from Emma Seith: 'What does Pisa really tell us about Scottish education?' tes.com/magazine/analy… Tes Scotland Tes magazine #Pisa

Is the Scottish education system really ‘on the brink of collapse’? Now that the dust has settled after the country’s disappointing Pisa scores, Emma Seith looks at how much of the recent criticism has been grounded in reality tes.com/magazine/analy…

There has been ‘a clear slide in outcomes’ in Scotland but ‘it’s not necessarily the disaster that is being pictured in very sensational terms’, experts tell Emma Seith tes.com/magazine/analy…

.Marina Shapira has looked in depth at how CfE is being implemented in secondary She says attainment data is shaping the courses and subjects schools offer - not questions like "what does it mean to be an educated person in the 21st century?" tes.com/magazine/analy…

Some of Scotland's smallest secondary schools have launched a campaign for a guaranteed core curriculum for all pupils They say some secondaries have “insufficient funding to deliver even a basic curriculum” tes.com/magazine/news/…