Letting parents choose which school their child attends positions parents as consumers, and often diverts students and funding away from public schools.
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Schools can consider virtual learning and other ways to reduce the negative impact of suspensions on student achievement.
Our current way of assessing students doesn't let them see the progress they are making over extended periods of time.
The involvement of large wealthy donors in local schools is influencing who gets elected to govern on school boards. Why does it matter?
Kenya has realised that its school-leavers aren't ready for the world of work. An ambitious plan aims to change this.
Our education system fails to amplify students' creativity and interest in learning. To continue along the current path is increasingly unscientific, unjustifiable and plain dull.
Newark's children are no better off even after Mark Zuckerberg pumped $100 million to improve public schools. What opportunities have been lost? What lessons have we learned?
New look GCSEs and A-levels will be sat by young people – but they haven't been asked about the reforms.
In the weeks following Hurricane Katrina in 2005, New Orleans implemented significant changes to its education system. But the reforms may have excluded a lot of parents from decision-making.
Nicky Morgan has wasted no time on pursuing plans to intervene in schools where results are 'flat-lining'.
Curriculum reforms being introduced in Finland from 2016 will set aside time for 'phenomenon-based' learning across subjects.
For most governments, it’s their platform of education reforms that is politically one of the hardest programmes to push through. Yet push it through they do, in what has become a constant effort by politicians…
Only a tenth of education reforms carried out around the world since 2008 have been analysed by governments for the impact…
In what must surely be seen as a significant demotion, secretary of state for education, Michael Gove, has been moved to become chief whip in David Cameron’s cabinet reshuffle. Given he is such a big fan…
The Department for Education has been scrambling to end the crisis over allegations of extremism at Muslim schools in Birmingham (the so-called Trojan Horse affair). Among all the ideas floated, one, the…
The Easter holidays have arrived, heralding the start of teacher union conference season. These are always important events, not least because according to research commissioned by the government, 97…
“Hope and change” may have driven the first presidential campaign for Barack Obama, but many educators and public education advocates have been discouraged by Obama’s education policy. While the US secretary…
The coalition government is to introduce the testing of young children soon after they enter primary school at the age of four or five. English children are already tested far more than children in most…
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