The BFG, Skellig, Aubrey ... children’s books boom
Booksellers and new publications are challenging pessimism about reading habits
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/ ... book-sales
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- Sun Sep 03, 2017 1:19 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: The BFG, Skellig, Aubrey ... children’s books boom
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3328
- Wed Aug 30, 2017 8:27 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Grammar school 'unlawfully threw out' students
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3839
Re: Grammar school 'unlawfully threw out' students
Schools around England ejecting 'underperforming' sixth-formers
Testimony from parents and students suggests St Olave’s grammar school is just one of many institutions ‘weeding out’ students
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2 ... th-formers
Testimony from parents and students suggests St Olave’s grammar school is just one of many institutions ‘weeding out’ students
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2 ... th-formers
- Tue Aug 29, 2017 5:20 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Grammar school 'unlawfully threw out' students
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3839
Grammar school 'unlawfully threw out' students
Grammar school 'unlawfully threw out' students who failed to get top grades Exclusive: Families launch legal action against St Olave’s grammar school in Orpington after about 16 sixth-formers lost final-year places https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/aug/29/grammar-school-unlawfully-threw-out...
- Sat Aug 26, 2017 6:47 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Academic Interventions
- Replies: 0
- Views: 3111
Academic Interventions
Academic Interventions for Elementary and Middle School Students With Low Socioeconomic Status
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10. ... 4316687036
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10. ... 4316687036
- Thu Aug 17, 2017 7:17 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Department for Education pulls all Learndirect contracts
- Replies: 0
- Views: 3167
Department for Education pulls all Learndirect contracts
Department for Education pulls all Learndirect contracts and funding Move comes after privatised adult training agency accused of paying owners millions despite ‘catastrophic’ decline in standards The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) thinkthank calculated that the company has received £63...
- Sun Aug 13, 2017 8:14 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Top British Universities ‘Discriminating’ Against UK Students
- Replies: 0
- Views: 3398
Top British Universities ‘Discriminating’ Against UK Students
Top British Universities ‘Discriminating’ Against UK Students For Big-Money Foreign Applicants
http://www.educationviews.org/top-briti ... pplicants/
http://www.educationviews.org/top-briti ... pplicants/
- Sun Aug 06, 2017 9:44 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Stop children bingeing on social media
- Replies: 0
- Views: 3105
Stop children bingeing on social media
Stop children bingeing on social media during holidays, parents urged Children’s commissioner says too much time is spent online as she launches ‘five a day’ campaign Her warning comes after a report said that children in all age groups are spending ever-longer periods online. The internet overtook ...
- Sun Aug 06, 2017 6:54 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: How Canada became an education superpower
- Replies: 0
- Views: 3112
How Canada became an education superpower
How Canada became an education superpower Prof David Booth, from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, highlights Canada's "strong base in literacy". There have been systematic efforts to improve literacy, with well-trained staff, resources such as school libra...
- Sun Jul 30, 2017 7:57 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Secondary school attainment gap still ‘stubbornly large’,
- Replies: 0
- Views: 3070
Secondary school attainment gap still ‘stubbornly large’,
Secondary school attainment gap still ‘stubbornly large’, social mobility study finds The attainment gap between poor and wealthy children has remained “stubbornly large” in secondary schools despite billions in targeted funding, an analysis of social mobility progress over two decades has found. ht...
- Wed Jul 26, 2017 10:55 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Hello again...
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3968
Re: Hello again...
Welcome back Jimbo, the Message Forum has been a bit quiet lately but here's hoping.
- Wed Jul 26, 2017 10:52 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Unqualified teachers rise by 62 per cent in four years
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2927
Unqualified teachers rise by 62 per cent in four years
Unqualified teachers rise by 62 per cent in four years as schools struggle amid recruitment crisis
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/20 ... -struggle/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/20 ... -struggle/
- Tue Jul 25, 2017 10:26 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Why there’s no such thing as a gifted child
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2721
Why there’s no such thing as a gifted child
Why there’s no such thing as a gifted child
Even Einstein was unexceptional in his youth. Now a new book questions our fixation with IQ and says adults can help almost any child become gifted
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2 ... instein-iq
Even Einstein was unexceptional in his youth. Now a new book questions our fixation with IQ and says adults can help almost any child become gifted
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2 ... instein-iq
- Sun Jul 23, 2017 7:47 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Behaviour is a national problem in schools in England
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4713
Re: Behaviour is a national problem in schools in England
Can a new technique stem England’s rising tide of school exclusions? A girl is studying quietly at a desk just outside the headteacher’s office at Gloucester academy. “Hi Freya, everything all right?” Ian Frost, the head, asks as he passes. The pupil gives a quick smile and nods before turning back ...
- Thu Jul 20, 2017 9:11 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Behaviour is a national problem in schools in England
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4713
Re: Behaviour is a national problem in schools in England
Number of children expelled from English schools hits 35 a day
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2 ... sh-schools
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2 ... sh-schools
- Tue Jul 11, 2017 8:38 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Reading Comprehension
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2913
Reading Comprehension
Automaticity and motivation’s effects on reading comprehension
http://www.beib.org.uk/2017/07/automati ... rehension/?
http://www.beib.org.uk/2017/07/automati ... rehension/?