Thanks Debbie, a very interesting and thought provoking piece from Maryanne Wolf.

SOCIAL MEDIA IS GIVING CHILDREN MENTALITY OF THREE-YEAR-OLDS Social media is having an adverse effect on the mental and emotional maturity of children, a leading neuroscientist has warned, leaving them with the behavioural habits of three-year-olds. Baroness Susan Greenfield, former director of the ...

Food banks appeal for help to feed children during school holidays Calls have been made for the public to donate to their local food bank during the summer holidays owing to increasing demand from families who rely on free school meals during term time. The Trussell Trust, an anti-poverty charity, s...

Children starting school 'cannot communicate in full sentences'

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2 ... creen-time

Editorial: Fight Detroit illiteracy in classroom, not court Detroit illiteracy is a huge concern. The nonprofit literacy organization Beyond Basics works in Detroit schools and claims 93 percent of the 50,000 children in the Detroit Public Schools Community District can’t read or are years behind. A...

‘Holiday hunger should be the shame of this government and it isn’t’ Kids’ clubs are stepping in to fill the gap and stop children going hungry during the school holidays, as families struggle with austerity https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jul/25/holiday-hunger-shame-government-childrens-cl...

Massachusetts allows school to continue with electric shocks

The only US facility using shocks on children with learning disabilities has fought off another legal challenge

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2 ... ric-shocks

Inquiry condemns school that barred A-level pupils

Report critical of St Olave’s, where pupils unlikely to get top grades were forced out

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2 ... ral-damage

Philip Pullman attacks 'monstrous' English education policy

The His Dark Materials novelist says current ‘fetish’ for exams is unnecessary and could ruin children’s lives

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/ ... ion-policy

Coalition education reforms ‘fuelled inequality in schools’ Study shows best schools take fewer children from deprived backgrounds as a result Sweeping education reforms appear to be fuelling inequality in the schools system, according to a major analysis that shows high-performing and improving sch...

There are good reasons why poor British children struggle in school

Let’s congratulate migrant success, but the ‘indigenous’ poor deal with a hard legacy

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... -in-school

'White working-class children have fallen behind because their families can “lack the aspiration and drive seen in many migrant communities,” according to Amanda Spielman, the chief inspector of schools in England.' I feel that ethnicity is a bit of a red herring here and that the real problem is po...

Ofsted chief: families of white working-class children 'lack drive' of migrants

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2 ... f-migrants

Matt Hancock: schools across the UK should ban mobile phones
The culture secretary who heads up the digital brief says tech makes parenting harder

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... ile-phones

How inequality shapes children’s ‘natural’ ability from day one: an extract from The Inner Level Rather than innate ability determining where people end up in a supposedly meritocratic hierarchy, the apparent abilities of children and their subsequent social status are instead heavily influenced by ...