WEAA - The Marc Steiner Show - City Paper This Week: Soccer Without Borders
On WEAA's The Marc Steiner Show, I discuss my City Paper cover story "Not Just A Game" and the challenges facing Baltimore's refugee and immigrant communities
Annalies Winny
Freelance journalist based between Baltimore, MD, New York City and Monrovia, Liberia, covering the impact of development and public policy on citizens, from industrial fishing in West Africa to England’s ‘free schools’ to America’s debt collection and bail systems. News writer for Global Health NOW from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Alum of London and its beloved local, The Hackney Citizen.
The Economist, The Guardian, VICE News, HuffPost, CityLab, American Bar Association Journal, Prospect magazine, Baltimore City Paper, Hackney Citizen and others.
Reema's Story
"We weren't welcome in Iraq. We weren't welcome in Syria." An 18 year old Iraqi refugee, whose mother was detained under President Trump's travel ban, tells her story
Not Just A Game
Soccer Without Borders offers respite and resources for refugees
Flagship free school STEM Academy changes hands after damning Ofsted report
After a much-hyped opening the Old Street school has been taken over by a chain of academies
New Head of Hackney Learning Trust is Council’s ‘star hire’
Anne Canning brings 30 years of experience and a wealth of knowledge to her new role
After speaking to Anne Canning at length about education management and policy, it’s easy to discern that she is a fine bureaucrat, but harder to imagine her former life as a schoolteacher.
Until she comes across two uniformed schoolgirls stuck in the revolving door at 1 Reading Lane, Hackney Learning Trust’s HQ.
“Her shoe is stuck, pull it out from under the door,” Canning calmly advises, as she coaches girl
Exclusive: Hackney free school tight-lipped over delayed opening
Mystery surrounds what role the General Election is to play in the opening of Hackney Wick Academy
Exclusive: Tampering of exam papers at Hackney primary schools
Schools to be given new guidance as investigations find exam papers at De Beauvoir and Southwold primary schools were compromised
Full story: http://hackneycitizen.co.uk/2015/03/27/tampering-exam-papers-de-beauvoir-southwold-primary-schools/
Tower power – building up to more school places
The Town Hall is using the power of property values to circumvent the Government’s schools policy
Ofsted under fire over inspection at Stamford Hill Jewish school
Secularists question Jewish school ‘good’ rating amid claims inspection failed to address evolution and sex education
Hackney GCSE results dip under controversial new exam structure
Results drop by 3.1 per cent but benchmark of five A*-C grades still 2 per cent higher than national average
De Beauvoir Primary investigated over exam ‘maladministration’
Key Stage 2 test results annulled as Department for Education investigates administration of school’s exams
Exclusive: Following no-notice inspection, Jewish school remains defiant over exam question redaction
Jewish state school rated ‘good’ will continue instructing students to refrain from answering sensitive exam questions
Michael Rosen interview: How parents can be a child's best teacher
With a new book out, poet Michael Rosen talks about his teaching strategies for parents
Television: Educating the East End – top class drama
A programme about education or tear-jerking soap opera? We speak to the stars of Channel 4’s Educating the East End
Yesodey Hatorah Girls’ School warned not to redact exam questions
Orthodox Jewish school found to have blacked out GCSE science paper on grounds of ‘sensitivity’
Improved GCSE results in Hackney, but are our schools making the grade?
Results were up again in 2013 but a closer look at the data reveals a nuanced picture
Erring on the side of risk
Why are literacy and numeracy rates in this country lagging so far behind nations such as Japan and Finland?
Acclaimed 'superhead' suspended
Investigation 'could scupper bid for academy status'
Teachers call for resignation of Sir Michael Wilshaw
Annual teachers' conference brings both praise and scorn for divisive Chief Inspector of Schools
Education, economy and industry – STEM sells as open day focuses on money
Government investment in Shoreditch’s ‘Tech City’ is a game-changer
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