Sugata Mitra: how kids teach themselves
Sugata Mitra is an educational researcher whose experiment of giving poor children in India access to a pc lead to understanding of how children can...
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CBI President: education is more than knowledge alone
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Another voice – that of CBI (Confederation of British Industry) President Paul Drechsler CBE – was added to those calling for education to mean more...
Two in five newly qualified teachers experience mental health problems, new study reveals (Independent)
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The Independent covered a study carried out by the Charity Education Support Partnership which showed that high numbers of newly qualified teachers and those with...
Reading instruction in kindergarten. Little to gain, much to lose (Defending the Early Years)
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This US based research examines the move towards teaching reading from age five in the States and how it is harming learning, looking at the...
The importance of interest to achieving success and being happy
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Being interested in what you’re doing makes everything better Interest is a powerful psychological state. It makes us feel energetic and excited, fully engaged and...
Exams at 16 are unnecessary
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Exams harm 16-year-olds, and increasingly there are calls to abolish them. What are we waiting for? Every year around exam time the news is full...
‘The Rise of the Meritocracy’ was intended as a warning
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Michael Young – politician, economist and author of a 1958 novel Rise of the Meritocracy – wrote a letter to The Guardian in 2001, dismayed...
Children’s writing skills harmed by primary curriculum
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Despite widespread opposition – from leading authors, from experts and even from the academics behind the curriculum and tests – primary school children are still...
Choosing how to spend their time is good for kids
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A study by psychologists at the University of Colorado and the University of Denver examines the impact of structured and unstructured time on the executive functions...
A socialist case against persecuting home educators (Medium)
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Home educated writer and editor Rowan Fortune writes on why home education is a necessary lifeline and why it should be defended now. His piece...