What Works?

Lee Elliot Major is former Chief Executive of the Sutton Trust and a founding trustee of the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF), chairing its evaluation advisory board. Lee was previously an education journalist and worked for the Guardian and the Times. He is now Professor of Social Mobility at the University of Exeter.Steve Higgins is Professor of Education at Durham University. Before working in higher education, he was a primary school teacher in the north-east. Steve is also the author of numerous educational books, chapters and research articles.Steve and Lee are co-authors of the Sutton Trust-EEF Teaching and Learning Toolkit and have given more than 50 keynote presentations and talks on using research and evidence to thousands of teachers across the world. They co-author the monthly 'Explainer' column for TES, advising teachers on education research.

We love to rush to the big picture and ignore the details, the conditionals and the fine print. Major and Higgins present the nuanced stories about what works best in schools. They deal with the implications, the actions and the messages from the many thousands of studies in a convincing, readable and enjoyably digestible manner.