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• Schools of incendiary thought | Shaaz Mahboob

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Faith schools that may be promoting extremist ideas must be closely monitored – and should certainly not receive public funds Any institution that promotes segregation and openly prescribes members of society to lead separate lives deserves no sympathy and most definitely not public support in the form of tax ...
  16 hours ago

• Boris Johnson announces first mayoral academy will open in September

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Schools secretary gives green light to Turin Grove school in Edmonton Boris Johnsons ambition to set up new schools in the capital began to bear fruit today as he announced that the first "mayoral academy" will open next September in Edmonton, north London, despite concerns at his decision to pour millions of pounds ...
  19 hours ago

• Ed Balls tells schools to make £750m savings

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Schools urged to turn out lights and share cleaners to minimise future cuts Ed Balls today ordered schools to tighten their belts, setting out measures to save £750m a year by turning the lights off, cutting back on heating bills and sharing cleaners . Schools need to start making savings now to safeguard ...
  21 hours ago

• Ed Balls hits back in row over funds given to Muslim schools

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  David Cameron was accused of playing politics with education today after he said the government had sanctioned "inappropriate use of public funds" to support two independent "extremist" Muslim schools. The Conservative leader used prime ministers questions to ask Gordon Brown to explain why he had not stopped the ...
  1 day ago

• Race to the Top in Education

  
  E3 (Excellent Education for Everyone) — Authority: 123
  By HAROLD E. FORD JR., LOUIS V. GERSTNER JR. AND ELI BROADThe Wall Street JournalWe can get real reform if the president resists pressure to dilute standards.For decades, policy makers have talked about significantly improving public education. The problem has been clear: one-third of public school children fail to ...
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• BYU Units Adopt Open Access

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 438
  David Wiley has a new post announcing that BYU’s Instructional Psychology and Technology department and library have adopted open access policies. From the post: I am giddy with excitement to see some of my own published articles beginning to appear in BYU’s institutional repository – they now have an open, ...
  2 days ago

• Letters: Time to exclude Ofsted from schools

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Ofsted is a creature of New Labours obsession with raising standards by central micromanagement enforced by ruthless inspection: it fails to accept that social deprivation can mean that, however hard-working and committed the teachers and social workers are, the "expected" standards cannot be reached overnight ( ...
  2 days ago

• We all hate Ofsted, right? | Michele Ledda

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 163
  The regulator is a convenient hook for our anger, but really its responding to our failure to take responsibility for children Everyone hates Ofsted but it is only enforcing the law everyone loves. Dont get me wrong. As a teacher, a parent and a citizen I hate Ofsted, too. I think that the barrage of criticism it ...
  3 days ago

• Critics demand reform of Ofsted

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Ofsted forces councils to meet inspection requirements rather than improving services, a report says Ofsteds approach to inspecting childrens social care is flawed and bureaucratic, forcing councils to focus on meeting the requirements of inspectors rather than improving services, a report says. In a hard-hitting ...
  3 days ago

• Ofsted fails barrage of inspections

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Schools watchdog mauled as critics bite back at wasteful bureaucracy Ofsted is facing a crisis in public confidence as it comes under a series of attacks on its authority this week, with the watchdog accused of being "flawed, wasteful and failing". The childrens services inspectorate will be criticised today by ...
  4 days ago

• History and Geography Rejected in School Curricula in Favour of “Blogging and Climate Change”

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 604
  New changes in school curricula announced by the Government will see history and geography dropped in favour of “blogging and climate change.” According to Children’s Secretary Ed Balls, some 13 stand-alone subjects will be merged into six so-called “areas of learning.” History and geography will be ...
  4 days ago

• Between a Rock and a Hard Place

  
  Stories from School: Practice meets Policy — Authority: 124
  By Tom We learned recently that Governor Gregoire decided to postpone Washingtons application for the Federal Governments Race to the Top grants. The first round of applications is due in January. The second round is due in June. So the...
  5 days ago

• Thursday turkey, today a little crow

  
  The Reality-Based Community — Authority: 139
  Cal won its last two games against good teams, one close and today’s running away, so I have to retract the snarky aside about Tedford’s record in this post.  We will have a winning season, probably win our last game as well, and finish in the upper division of the conference.  The team recovered from [...]
  5 days ago

• So, just how difficult is it for parents to set up their own school?

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  In August, journalist Toby Young announced in this newspaper that he wanted to found a new type of free school where access to a good education is not based on income. Three months on, his biggest problem is battling bureaucracy and accusations of middle-class snobbery I emerged from a meeting with the DCSF ...
  5 days ago

• Children hurt by focus on exam grades

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Labours drive to increase the number of pupils gaining C grades at GCSE is distorting education and forcing teachers to neglect their highest and lowest achievers, the schools select committee is expected to conclude this month. After a year-long inquiry into school accountability and inspections, MPs are ready to ...
  5 days ago

• My Case for Homogenous Groupings in High School

  
  Stories from School: Practice meets Policy — Authority: 124
  By Mark I look with envy at my peers in the math department. Sure, I know they have the same issues I have as an English teacher: kids who dont turn work in; hours of planning, prep, and grading to...
  6 days ago

• History? Its history

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 163
  If the past is another country, Ed Balls has just confiscated the passports of our schoolchildren Ed Balls has announced that primary school history is to be subsumed into an "area of learning" called "historical, geographical and social understanding". Personally I did prefer the words "history" and "geography", ...
  6 days ago

• Call for Papers: MillionTreesNYC Green Infrastructure and Urban Ecology Research Symposium

  
  The Dirt — Authority: 513
  According to MillionTreesNYC , the purpose of its 2010 research symposium, which will be held March 5-6 in New York City, is to showcase “research and projects that contribute to knowledge on urban landscapes, green infrastructure, and public health in cities and urban areas.” The organization is soliciting ...
  6 days ago

• Oxbridge is clearly guilty of pursuing excellence

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 972
  Oxbridge demands very high Alevel passes and produces many students with good degrees very few of whom drop out. Where is the problem wonders Simon Heffer.
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• ‘We are the people we’ve been waiting for’

  
  Flux — Authority: 115
  Billed as an ‘Inconvenient Truth’ for education, a new documentary from Lord Puttnam and Sir Michael Barber is exploring the UK education system. The film asks current students, education experts and high-profile figures about their experiences of education and explores key questions about future of education. ...
  6 days ago

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