Alternatives in Education (organisation)
Alternatives in Education aims to raise awareness about different ways of educating and to support people to get involved in transforming their schools or getting...
Category : Change Needed
We must reinvent education to prepare our children for the era of artificial intelligence (Telegraph)
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A leading headmaster, Anthony Wallersteiner, of the prestigious and expensive Stowe School on why the educational system needs to change as it is not preparing...
Hackschooling
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An American site on ‘hackschooling’, the concept coined by 13-year-old TED speaker Logan LaPlante to explain how home education works Read more: Why hackschooling? (Hackschooling.net)...
‘We batter them with kindness’: schools that reject super-strict values (The Guardian)
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A Guardian piece on “unconditional positive regard”, at a school for children who have suffered abuse, neglect or poverty and cannot study in the mainstream....
The primary school that abolished marking (BBC News Video)
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A primary school found scrapping marking to be a positive move making children more engaged and giving teachers more time with the children Watch the...
Outdoor play officially ‘fundamental’ to learning (TES)
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Scotland has signed up to a national commitment to outdoor learning, backed by over 50 influential organisations and people in Scotland One of the signatories...
Big SATs sit-in (More Than A Score)
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Parents across the country joined the Big SATs Sit-in to protest against the way primary school pupils are tested. From Devon to Stockton-on-Tees, they sat...
Pupil brings legal action against school’s isolation policy (The Guardian)
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Legal action has been taken on behalf of a boy who spent 60 days – a third of a school year – in a isolation...
Dear government: an open letter about special needs education
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14-year-old Rory’s video has gone viral, what she says here about the way in which children with special needs have been failed has sadly been...
“Exam Factories?” NUT commissioned research shows harm
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The harm of exams for children and young people and how education could be dramatically improved by stopping them Exams don’t just measure what is...