School prevents children from exercising enough
School children are just not active enough and their health, both physical and mental, is suffering as a result Schools have cut time for physical...
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Self-determination theory explained (in just 1 minute 48 seconds)
by dan
What is self-determination anyway? You might have read (here for example) that home education is a very effective educational option because it fulfils the three...
Teens – make yourselves an amazing education
by dan
Get a team of mentors, build your peer support, get work experience or perhaps start a small business Blake Boles has loads of advice and...
UK children missing out on languages
by dan
Foreign languages are another incredibly important skill, especially for future jobs opportunities, which schools are failing to teach children French, Spanish, German, Italian, Russian, Japanese, Turkish,...
Professional writers’ advice to kids on spelling and grammar tests
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Professional writers don’t know what fronted adverbials are either but they do know it hasn’t got anything to do with being a good writer Professional...
School fails the brightest students says government
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Over recent years Ofsted have highlighted the way in which the ‘brightest’ children are being failed by school. The solution is apparently more tests In...
Inspiration from the Finnish system
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What can we learn from the success of the Finnish school system? Finland, by many measures, is one of the most successful school systems in...
Not Fine in School – school refusers
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For a number of children school is not something that they are able to cope with and they refuse to go There is incredibly sparse...
Sugata Mitra: School in the Cloud
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Educational researcher Sugata Mitra’s ideas about self-organised education are now known all over the world. In 2013 he was the winner of the TED Prize,...
Professor Liz Davies: register of children not identified at risk is wrong
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Emeritus Professor in Social Work, Liz Davies, wrote in The Guardian newspaper about why keeping a register of children who frequently visit hospital is an...