How children learn: British Council nails it
British Council on how children learn languages “If your child plays with toy cars, they will learn about colour, shape, size, texture, friction, direction, and...
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‘Last night’s episode of “School” proves it: it’s time to get rid of Ofsted’ (TES)
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An opinion piece from TES writer Tom Rogers on the documentary “School” and what it shows about the way that Ofsted are damaging schools and...
Guardian investigation: some secondaries exclude over 20% of pupils
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The government have been urged to act after a Guardian newspaper investigation revealed that a number of secondary schools had excluding at least one in...
What age is the ‘right’ age to read? (Today’s Parent)
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Susan Goldberg looks at what age children should be reading by. She finds that while there is a huge range of ‘natural’ ages. Starting to...
Professor Liz Davies: How the system fails to protect children
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Emeritus Professor in Social Work Liz Davies in 2008 on how the government’s policy of widening the net to ‘safeguard’ all children has damaged child...
Ellie Chick’s results day Twitter video #ForgottenThird
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33 per cent of students in the UK got grades 1-3 in their GCSEs, officially a fail. One of those students, Ellie Chick, spoke out...
Laura Schultz – children’s logical and scientific minds
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Extensive research shows that babies are scientific and systematic in their playful exploration of the world Laura Schulz, associate MIT professor of brain and cognitive...
Dr Helen Lees: schools, colleges and universities not needed
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Helen Lees, a leading academic in alternative education who has written prolifically on the topic, recently wrote a very to the point piece the Big...
School in the Cloud in action – Isle of Man school
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Teacher Helen Moyer implemented Sugata Mitra’s Self-Organised Learning Environment (SOLE) in Williston School, a primary school on the Isle of Man. Schools on the Isle...
Harm to confidentiality in a preventive child welfare system (Munro)
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Professor Eileen Munro writes in 2007 about how the emerging child safeguarding policies promoting preventive and early intervention services posed a challenge to professional ethics,...