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

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

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...

Academic Interventions for Elementary and Middle School Students With Low Socioeconomic Status


http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10. ... 4316687036

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...

Top British Universities ‘Discriminating’ Against UK Students For Big-Money Foreign Applicants

http://www.educationviews.org/top-briti ... pplicants/

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 ...

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...

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...

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Unqualified teachers rise by 62 per cent in four years as schools struggle amid recruitment crisis

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/20 ... -struggle/

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

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 ...

Number of children expelled from English schools hits 35 a day


https://www.theguardian.com/education/2 ... sh-schools

Automaticity and motivation’s effects on reading comprehension

http://www.beib.org.uk/2017/07/automati ... rehension/?