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Three-quarters of primary schools have had to cut teaching assistants numbers, despite the continued rise in pupils with special educational needs. The annual Sutton...
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LGBTQ+ students will receive explicit legal protection from sex discrimination and harassment under a long-awaited revision of Title IX rules the Biden administration released...
Academies
The gender pay gap at the country’s biggest trusts has hardly closed despite the roll-out of schemes such as “unconscious gender bias” training, enhanced maternity...
Academies
Government “spot checks” on deals to sell school playing fields could be introduced in a bid to tighten up its monitoring of academy trust...
News
The Biden administration issued new rules on Friday cementing protections for L.G.B.T.Q. students under federal law and updating the procedure schools must follow when...
Teaching
Earth Day is April 22 in the United States and the day the spring equinox occurs in some parts of the world. It’s a...
Teaching
Problems in the classroom can make up an ever-growing list. Since the pandemic, many teachers have reported a sharp uptick when it comes to...
Teaching
I’m in the middle of giving a lesson about the Cold War to my 7th grade class when a student returns from the restroom,...
Academies
The first government-backed lawsuit against an academy trust’s former directors has already racked up “scandalous” costs of £900,000 – with its final claims “still...
Academies
An academy trust is suing former bosses for damages over business trips around the world, thousands spent on consultants and holiday cottages – and...
Academies
The Sutton Trust publishes annual polling of teachers on the state of play of school finances. This year’s survey highlights major concerns across the...
News
The new tents popped up — one, two, three — on Columbia’s campus. It was a defiant gesture on Thursday afternoon by student activists,...
Technology
More federal and state policymakers are focusing on addressing data privacy, especially for children, because of increasing concerns about how companies collect and sell...
Leaders
What will professional development for educators look like in 10 years? Will it continue to be a top-down, one-size-fits-all annual training that all teachers...
Academies
A two-year hiatus from Progress 8 should be used to “rethink performance tables”, school leaders have said. But some warned we could now see...
Leaders
The chain of events has become so predictable as to be mind-numbing. A school shooting with multiple fatalities draws national attention to a community...
News
Last Monday, it was forgiving student loans. This week, it was calling for tariffs on Chinese steel. Soon, President Biden is expected to protect...
News
The 100-year-old annual honors convocation at the University of Michigan is typically a decorous affair, with a pipe organ accompanying golf-clap applause. This year’s...
Academies
There will be no progress 8 replacement for the next two years due to the lack of SATs data from the pandemic, government has...
News
A Pennsylvania school board canceled an anti-bullying speech by the actor Maulik Pancholy, who is gay, after board members raised concerns about his “lifestyle,”...
Academies
When the secretary of state for education herself describes the special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) system as ‘lose, lose, lose’, no one can...
Teaching
Call it a seven-year itch: After a couple of years in the classroom, teachers’ morale slumps for a few years before rebounding later in...
Policy
In a case followed closely in the education community, the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that employees challenging a transfer under the main...
Policy
Tyler Hansford served as superintendent of the Union school district in Mississippi from 2018 to 2022. Year after year, the 1,000-student district received half...
Policy
Time is running out for school districts to spend their remaining federal COVID-relief dollars—unless districts successfully get approval to take a little longer. Districts...
Leaders
What will professional development for educators look like in 10 years? Will it continue to be a top-down, one-size-fits-all annual training that all teachers...
Leaders
The chain of events has become so predictable as to be mind-numbing. A school shooting with multiple fatalities draws national attention to a community...
Leaders
School shootings had happened before the fateful 1999 massacre at Columbine High School. But it quickly became clear that the tragic event, in which...
Technology
More federal and state policymakers are focusing on addressing data privacy, especially for children, because of increasing concerns about how companies collect and sell...
Academies
A two-year hiatus from Progress 8 should be used to “rethink performance tables”, school leaders have said. But some warned we could now see...
News
Last Monday, it was forgiving student loans. This week, it was calling for tariffs on Chinese steel. Soon, President Biden is expected to protect...