School & Teaching

As schools start back into session around the country, some parents of young children face a difficult question: Send their litt...

Standing in front of my class of 11- year- old children, I ask for volunteers to come to the front and read out their work.

Se...

Children’s grasp of the three Rs after two years of school is at its worst for a decade, official figures suggested
yesterday.

By Lisa Guernsey.

Our education system starts at age 5, pays little attention to children’s development and achievement until...

Blame Tom Sawyer: Americans have a skewed view of childhood and
summertime. We associate the school year with oppression and th...

Pupils are being subjected to all manner of crank treatments in the name of helping them, says Francis Gilbert.

Twenty years...