Restricted toilet access – how is this okay?
Children being prevented from using the toilet when needed Some schools across England, both primary and secondary, are restricting access to the toilets. Toilets are...
Category : A Broken System
Time in isolation – just another part of the school day
by dan
News coverage of strict schools and their use of disciplinary measures such as isolation has become a regular part of the news cycle, with the...
What is wrong with the mainstream? Select Committee report into exclusions
by dan
Education Select Committee report. Forgotten children: alternative provision and the scandal of ever increasing exclusions The Education Select Committee report is an in-depth review into...
Opposition to Ofsted’s Bold Beginnings report on reception
by dan
Ofsted’s report, Bold Beginnings, which recommended that reception year should be focused more on formal learning led to considerable opposition from people across the field....
“Little robots”: behind the scenes at an academy school
by dan
New research from Cambridge University’s Faculty of Education lifts the lid on an influential academy school, and finds an authoritarian system that reproduces race and...
UK school system failing
by dan
The stress, pressure and unhappiness of the UK’s school children has not ‘paid off’ in success. The UK schooling system is failing on many levels....
Teachers at breaking point – stories and letters in the press
by dan
Teachers and headteachers are among those upset at what the school system has become, a number voicing their unhappiness at their inability to give their...
School is a prison – and damaging our kids (Peter Gray, Salon)
by dan
Professor of psychology Peter Gray on our system of schooling and the joy and success that education can be, if we follow what we know...