From Wikipedia: A Secondary Modern School is a type of secondary school that existed in most of the United Kingdom from 1944 until the early 1970s under the Tripartite System, and was designed for the majority of pupils – those who do not achieve scores in the top 25% of the eleven plus examination. They [...]
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Worst headline of the week?
Jun 25
It Was Asbestos Times, It Was the Worst of Times from Daily Grist 24 June 08: U.S. Supreme Court clears way for asbestos-company trial MJ
I wrote a request on a green news forum for examples of ways that people try to be green yet end up with unintended consequences: Following reply “How about the truly horrible and totally counterproductive national “phones4schools” project – which encourages recycling in kids – supposedly – by rewarding them with revolting, tacky, totally non-sustainable [...]
By Richard Hillesley, writes (12 Jun 2008 at 03:13): Inertia, fear of the unknown and agreements with vendors have lead to slow adoption of open source and free software in UK schools. Back in 2005, Becta – the body that advises the UK government on IT policy in education – issued a report which concluded [...]
Ofsted have just produced a report on successful strategies for taking schools out of special measures, it contains some strong words about pupil participation: Pupils and students’ greater engagement in school life had a significant influence on improving outcomes in almost all of the schools surveyed. … Establishing and keeping high profile a school council, [...]
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Jun 15
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Stop your whingeing!
Jun 12
A new book, The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education argues that the focus on emotional expression and building up self-esteem in schools and colleges is ‘infantilising’ students, leaving them unable to cope with life. In an interview in the Times Higher Education Hayes and Ecclestone, of Oxford Brookes University argue that attention paid to emotional [...]
Plans to change the law to require dads, as well as mums to be named on the birth certificate are being announced by Secretary of State for Work James Purnell and Children’s Secretary Ed Balls in a joint White Paper published today. The change, which will be implemented in the next session’s Welfare Reform Bill, [...]
IPPR have just published Thursday’s Child, a research/policy document on where they think education should be going. One of the issues they discuss is social and emotional wellbeing, it contains this paragraph: Wellbeing in the classroom The school environment is the most important school-level component of the emotional and social wellbeing of pupils and teachers. [...]
