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As educators consider how best to teach in a high-tech world, there is the risk of overlooking one of the most effective low-cost, low-tech…

Is homework an unnecessary evil, or an important prerequisite for success? The jury is out. Yet year upon year, we ask our students to spend…

Q I have recently been promoted to the position of head teacher in the school where I have worked for 15 years, the last four of these as…

“There isn’t an education system on the planet that teaches dance every day to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why?” asks…

Every year, thousands of teachers give up their own time, not to mention significant energy and sleepless nights, to extend their pupils’…

​ One in five primary school age girls say they have been on a diet. One in three adolescent boys has been on a diet to change their body…

Andy Quinn is deputy head teacher at The FitzWimarc School in Rayleigh, Essex – an Ofsted outstanding mixed comprehensive school of 1350…

Andy Quinn is deputy head teacher at The FitzWimarc School in Rayleigh, Essex – an Ofsted outstanding mixed comprehensive school of 1350…

The objective of Wikipedia is to serve as a compendium of public knowledge that has been collected collaboratively. Any student conducting…

So what actually is independent learning? It is supposedly a very good thing for us all. We want it for our students. Employers want it.…

It’s always worth questioning conventional wisdom. Why do we do the things we do? Why, as teachers, have we decided certain practices are…

Over the summer I spent time reading up on post war education history. It is always good to take a long view, to see what has changed and…

For me the overwhelming memory of secondary school is simply how I couldn’t wait to leave. I’d been happy at primary school and by the…