Good morning,

In this week’s episode, I’m joined by Elliot Morgan for a return to our education news format - That’s the Good News. We discuss the proposed social media ban for under-16s, the new enrichment benchmarks, the government’s AI tutor trial, and two pieces of writing that we think are worthy of some extra attention, one on prior knowledge and one on SEND (mis)interventions. Links below, as usual.

PS: On Wednesday, I’m going to release an extra edition of the newsletter with the links and general overview of my talk from researchED Yorkshire (Five Papers that Will Shape the Future of Mathematics) this weekend. I won’t email it though, I will just publish it to keep the number of emails down. If you are interested, all you need to do is come back to thinkingdeeply.info to find it whenever you like.

Hope you enjoy!

Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. (2026). Social media to be banned for under-16s in landmark government move to give kids their childhood back. GOV.UK.

Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. (2026). Fact sheet: New rules to protect children online. GOV.UK.

Department for Education. (2026). The enrichment framework for schools and colleges. GOV.UK.

Department for Education. (2026). Enrichment benchmarks. GOV.UK.

Department for Education and Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. (2026). 450,000 disadvantaged pupils could benefit from AI tutoring tools. GOV.UK.

Department for Education and Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. (2026). Edtech and AI companies invited to help build safe AI tutoring tools for disadvantaged pupils. GOV.UK.

Education Endowment Foundation. (n.d.). One to one tuition. Teaching and Learning Toolkit.

Cottinghatt, S. (2025). The prior knowledge paradox: what to do with what they know. Cognitive Coaching.

Mccrea, P. and Barker, J. (2026). Common SEN (Mis)Interventions: An evidence summary. Steplab.

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