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Developing language skills appears to be more important for boys than girls in helping them to develop self-control and, ultimat...

This
morning, as usual, I waved my seven-year-old daughter Rosalie off to
school. Not from inside the school gates, not even f...

A damning new Ofstead report warns that as many as 750,000 children have been wrongly labelled as having special needs to cover...

Over the past few weeks, I have driven by a gaggle of white helmets bobbing on the heads of tiny football players in the open gr...

When my children were 6 and 8, taking tests was as much a part of the rhythm of their school day as tag at recess or listening t...

Every September, millions of parents try a kind of psychological witchcraft, to transform their summer-glazed campers into fall...