School & Teaching

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...

Parents who help their children with homework and are strict about sickies give their children the best start in life.

Paren...

Parents and teachers can’t have it both ways. The cosy, silent
agreement whereby there is no homework to bother the parents and...

Mission: Twenty years later, Margaret Norrie McCain's focus is still
on nurturing the minds of young children. She hopes politi...