Every child has experienced the pandemic school closures in different ways.
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Academic progress seems to be the government’s primary concern. But school pupils have experienced lockdown learning – and losses – in a myriad ways
Research suggests getting pupils involved in designing better rules around phones in school
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Phones have the potential to help children learn, but UK teachers need evidence-based guidance on phone use in schools
When schools do tackle racism head on, they make a difference.
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In focusing on the socio-economic roots of underachievement, the UK government is side-stepping how institutional racism impacts on learning. Schools have a vital role to play in undoing this
‘Hair is not neutral: it is saturated with racial and cultural meaning’
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In the absence of explicit national legislation against hair-based discrimination, young people are demanding fairer rules - and a culture shift.
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We heard the views of 211 primary school staff in Wales on the return to school.
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Exam revision and parties are a traditional part of growing up.
School funding doesn’t add up.
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Children in classrooms – particularly in disadvantaged areas – are already feeling the very real effects of funding cuts.
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A new report has found funding shortfalls are forcing schools to make difficult decisions about which pupils get support.
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Based on the current body of evidence, the use of coloured filters should not be recommended as a dyslexia treatment, nor be provided through publicly funded bodies.
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New research shows that extra-curricular activities do more to help close the attainment gap between richer and poorer pupils than nebulous lessons in ‘character’.
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Forest School helps children learn without realising it.
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In these divided times, young people are uniting to claim a political platform and fight climate change.
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Britain’s education system doesn’t know what to do about children with autism.
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The education system needs an urgent re-think to give children from disadvantaged backgrounds a better chance in life.
Some countries seem to provide more equitable opportunities in schools and society in general. Others have work to do if they want to advance the adage that hard work and education afford success regardless of one’s existing social status.
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Conventional wisdom across much of the Western world says there’s a strong link between education and upward social mobility. Really?
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Kids in the UK grow up with some of the highest levels of educational inequality.
A visiting farmer tends the animals.
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Social farms provide health, social and educational care to disadvantaged young people.
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Low expectations influence disabled young people’s educational attainment, finds new study.
Learning at home.
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It’s time to normalise it.
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Suicide rates among UK students have increased by 56% in the last 10 years