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Unions divided on curriculum delays
Calls from secondary teachers for the Scottish Government to delay the roll-out of the country’s new school curriculum should be resisted, key education figures warned yesterday.
Autistic children put in cage
3.11.10 - A SYDNEY primary school that pens children with autism in a fenced area at lunchtimes should be investigated for human rights violations, the New South Wales Opposition says. ...
What, no chips?: The school where children have to eat healthily
David Daniels thinks children don't pick the best school meals, so he chooses for them....Six out of ten secondary schools 'fail to give a good education'
The percentage of 'inadequate' or merely satisfactory schools has jumped from 37 per cent last academic year to 58 per cent in 2009/10. ...Primary schoolchildren in tears after they are told they will be removed from families as part of Holocaust 'game'
3.11.10 - Pupils at St Hilary's Primary School in East Kilbride became hysterical after a number of them were separated and told they were being sent away or might end up in an orphanage. ...
Schoolgirl, 13, found hanged 'had been bullied because she was pretty'
Poppy Bracey, was found in her bedroom last week after returning home from her Manchester school. The teenager was taken to hospital but later died. ...
All the classroom's a stage, as RSC helps bring Shakespeare to life
Teachers urged to drop 'chalk and talk' technique and let pupils mirror methods of actors by walking around ...
Rome school criticised for installing condom machine for pupils
Cardinal deplores initiative for 'trivialising sexuality' as headmaster of Kepler school urges others to follow ...New inspections find 1 in 7 'inadequate'
Teachers' unions accuse Ofsted of 'moving the goalposts' after judgments of schools inspected last term are revealed ...
Lotteries can be destabilising, admits Ed Balls
It is better for children to go to the same secondary school as their friends, says education secretary ...
'GCSEs' in work experience at McDonald's
Teenagers will be able to gain the equivalent of a B grade GCSE for completing two weeks’ work experience at McDonald’s, it was announced today. ...
Schools offered gang trouble tips
Schools in England are being issued with new guidance on how to spot signs that children are involved with gangs. ...
Frustrated pupils 'bored by their factory schools'
Pupils are being turned into "a seething mass of bored, frustrated, alienated children" by today's education system, a leading professor will claim tonight. ...
More schools fail Ofsted checks
More schools in England are being judged as inadequate in Ofsted's new-style inspections, according to figures just released. ...
Victory for teacher at centre of assault row
Scotland’s largest teaching union has called for school staff to be given greater protection from abusive pupils after a teacher who was sacked by his employers won an out-of-court settlement. ...
Parents 'unable to understand their teenage children's homework'
Parents averaged a score of just two of of ten in a quiz based on GSCE lessons, which asked them to name the first Labour Prime Minister....
Call to scrap 50% student target
Targets for getting young people into higher education should be scrapped and top-up fees raised, say graduate recruiters. ...
Education Policy in depth
Key issues, the latest news and Liberal Democrat, Labour and Conservative education policy. ...
Scrap GCSEs at 16, says Baroness Morris
GCSEs for 16-year-olds should be abolished, according to a former Labour education secretary. ...An Interview with Glenn Scoggins: Teaching at an International School
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currently serves as executive director of The Alliance for High Speed Recreational Reading, and formerly served as executive director of Californians for Community College Equity. A resident of Thousand Oaks, CA, and an overseas Air Force veteran, he is an emeritus professor of English at Cal State Northridge.
currently serves as executive director of The Alliance for High Speed Recreational Reading, and formerly served as executive director of Californians for Community College Equity. A resident of Thousand Oaks, CA, and an overseas Air Force veteran, he is an emeritus professor of English at Cal State Northridge.
