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Educators around the world are uniting behind the need for the profession to have access to more high-quality research and evidence to do their job more effectively. But every year thousands of research papers are published, some of which contradict each other. How can busy teachers know which research is worth investing time in reading and understanding? And how easily is that academic research translated into excellent practice in the classroom. 

In this thorough, enlightening and comprehensive book, Carl Hendrick and Robin Macpherson ask 18 of today's leading educational thinkers to distill the most up-to-date research into effective classroom practice in 10 of the most important areas of teaching.The result is a fascinating manual that will benefit every single teacher in every single school, in all four corners of the globe.

Carl Hendrick is the head of research at Wellington College where he teaches English. He is also completing a PhD in education at King's College London. He has taught for several years in both the state and independent sectors where has worked on several cross sectoral collaborations and is a co-director of the Telegraph Festival of Education. In 2014 he established the Wellington Learning and Research Centre collaborating with Harvard Graduate School of Education and others.

Robin Macpherson is an Assistant Rector at Dollar Academy where he teaches History and Modern Studies. He previously worked as Head of Professional Learning at Wellington College and was co-director of the Telegraph Festival of Education. He has been a Head of History for seven years and worked in Scotland, England and the UAE. He co-authored The 20th Century Coursebook for IGCSE History, published by Cambridge University Press, and the accompanying teacher resource guide. He has been an examiner for the SQA, Edexcel and the IBO. He works for the educational charity Remembering Srebrenica as a community champion. His personal Twitter handle is @robin_macp (where all views are his own).