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UK news
fromwww.standard.co.uk
2 days ago

London secondary schools numbers set to decline in similar scale to primary school crisis

London's secondary pupil numbers are expected to fall soon due to declining birth rates, potentially producing declines comparable to those already seen in primary schools.
Education
fromPsychology Today
2 weeks ago

Reaching for the Stars Matters in Education

Weekly low-stakes multiple-choice/true-false exams combined with explicit teaching coincided with high social, emotional, and intellectual maturity among years 7–10 students.
Education
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Year 8 state school pupils in England could face mandatory reading tests

England plans a compulsory year 8 national reading test from 2028–29 to improve secondary reading instruction and address white working-class underachievement.
fromThe New Yorker
1 month ago

The Art of the Impersonal Essay, by Zadie Smith

The first essay anybody writes is for school. Same here. But the only examples I remember are the ones I wrote at the end, in my A-level exams. One compared Hitler to Stalin. Another, Martin Luther King, Jr., to Malcolm X. I was proudest of the essay that considered whether the poet John Milton-pace William Blake-was "of the devil's party without knowing it." I did well on those standardized tests, but even passing was far from a foregone conclusion.
Education
London politics
fromwww.romfordrecorder.co.uk
4 months ago

How Havering secondary schools offered places to pupils according to admissions data

Secondary schools in Havering welcomed Year 7 students with varying levels of preference-based placements, indicating strong demand for specific institutions.
UK news
fromwww.theguardian.com
6 months ago

Labour's pledge to hire 6,500 extra teachers in England will be a challenge', report says

Government's pledge to appoint 6,500 new teachers may fall short of demand due to rising pupil numbers in England.
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