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Hello! I saw this News article on Teach Primary Magazine's website and thought you might like it - please find an excerpt below: A new report has highlighted the need to reassess the use of teaching assistants in the classroom The rise in the number of teaching assistants here in the UK has prompted academics to question whether Schools and policy-makers need to make radical changes in the way they are deployed in classrooms. In their book Reassessing the Impact of Teaching Assistants: How Research Changes Practice and Policy Peter Blatchford, Anthony Russell and Rob Webster have assessed the impact of teaching assistants in recent years and their role in the contemporary education system. Looking at results for 8200 pupils over the past five years the authors found that pupils who received the most support from TAs consistently made less progress… If you want to read the full article, please visit: https://teachprimary.com/1/news/view/time-to-rethink-teaching-assistants Thanks!