School & Teaching

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...

About six months ago, I read an article detailing the academic struggles of a second-grade student and the steps his mother was...

Andrew Hanson readily admits he struggled with maths at primary school. He remembers finding the subject daunting and bleak, so...