Fake news about police visiting hundreds of home educators (HE Byte)
HE Byte published information including the details of a Freedom of Information request about the claims by The Times that hundreds of home educators had...
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Estimating child abuse can overload social workers and put pressure on families
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A report ‘Estimating child abuse numbers can overload social workers and put more pressure on families’ by Dr Devine and Mr Parker critiques the way...
What makes the Finnish school system successful? (Interviews with Pasi Silander)
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Two interviews with Pasi Silander, leading figure in the Finnish education system and author of the book ‘Finnish Lessons 2.0 What can the world learn...
School Without Walls, the 2018 version
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The School Without Walls ethos is a child centred approach, with its educational philosophy and methodology firmly rooted in the Reggio Emilia approach. The scheme...
Government accused of misleading parents over schools’ success (The Guardian)
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A statistician, who worked for the Department of Education for 13 years, says that the figures used to claim improvement are flawed “In this case,...
ATL report: national curriculum needs fundamental change
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A detailed and important critique of the National Curriculum which seeks to understand not only where we should be going but where we’ve come from...
Unprecedented exam stress from new GCSEs (Rescue Our Schools)
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Rescue Our Schools survey showing that the new GCSEs are causing unprecedented and serious levels of stress has been backed by the teenage anxiety expert...
Curiosity is key to early academic success – new research
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New research on curiosity has added another layer of knowledge to our understanding of how qualities such as interest, personal involvement and curiosity drive learning...
The Warwick Commission report on the Future of Cultural Value
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A school system overly focused on siloed subjects is one of threats facing the cultural and creative industries The Cultural and Creative Industries – industries...
The knowledge economy is dead so why are our schools still flogging it?
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Tony Wagner, educational expert (with many years of experience of hands on teaching and many more at Harvard), says schools are obsolete “We still talk...