education
Children of poor already a year behind by five
The Times (London), 15 February 2010
Report highlights the importance of activities such as bedtime stories and taking children to museums and libraries.
‘Worthless qualifications deceive children’
The Times (London), 23 January 2010
Barnaby Lenon said that grade inflation and a shift to vocational skills was masking a failure to teach to a good standard.
Badman review blasted by MPs’ inquiry
Children & Young People Now, 15 December 2009
By Lauren Higgs.
We all hate Ofsted, right?
Guardian Comment is Free, 23 November 2009
The regulator is a convenient hook for our anger, but really it's responding to our failure to take responsibility for children. By Michele Ledda.
Fight for a good school is making criminals of parents
Sunday Times, 8 November 2009
By India Knight.
Council used terror powers on school place mother
The Times (London), 6 November 2009
Jenny Paton has taken Poole Borough Council to court for spying on her family for three weeks over school application.
This inversion of power is teaching our children that aggression can pay
Guardian, 27 October 2009
Disruptive pupils are increasingly accusing teachers of assault, and the authorities are far too ready to believe them. By Jenni Russell.
Two schools win ‘nappy curriculum’ battle
The Times (London), 2 October 2009
Ministers drop their stance over targets for all under-fives after two Steiner schools win their fight to opt out.
Confessions of a home-schooler
Salon, 28 September 2009
Call us crackpots, but our kids spend their days at beaches and museums, not in school. By Andrew O'Hehir.
Dinner lady case ‘bully’ is school governor’s son
The Times (London), 24 September 2009
Parents are demanding the headmistress’s resignation at a school that sacked a member of staff for reporting bullying.
Blurred boundaries for teachers
The Guardian, 23 September 2009
Following the jailing this week of Helen Goddard, the teacher who had a sexual relationship with a pupil, Jon Henley looks at how texting, emailing and social networking sites are radically changing the teacher-pupil relationship.
Do parents push their children too hard?
Sunday Times, 20 September 2009
More and more parents are succumbing to the craze for costly private tutors. Pushy parenting at its worst?
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