Here are some headlines and links from the world of education and schoolswork:
- Schools to be rated on number of pupils at top universities: Reforms designed to increase pressure on secondaries to reduce drop-out rate after GCSEs
- The public schools of rock: Benenden and Harrow are better known for their blazers and boaters than for their budding rock stars. But the boys and girls of those legendary educational institutions are laying down their hockey sticks and cricket bats to pick up camcorders, as a home-made grunge music video craze sweeps Britain’s smartest schools.
- Primary school where children speak 26 languages turn to sign language: Headteacher says techniques help pupils who might otherwise struggle to make themselves understood
- Ofsted says pupils are sold short on school trips: Government launches £4.5m plan to cut bureaucracy and aid learning outside class
- School tables delayed after Sats fiasco: This year’s performance tables for England’s primary schools are to be published three months late, due to the SATs problems.
- Boys do better when they are taught by men, study finds: Boys will perform better in education if they have a male teacher in their primary school, according to research published today.
- Response: A one-size-fits-all approach to learning doesn’t suit today’s classrooms: It is our duty to nurture and celebrate potential in gifted and talented children, says Jane Maguire
- X Factor fills vacuum left by God in schools, says head: Celebrity culture and the X Factor have filled the moral vacuum left by an embarrassment about discussing God in schools, a headteacher has said.
- Teenagers can benefit from hearing about the experiences of people who have been homeless: Teenagers can benefit from hearing about the experiences of people who have been homeless, says Janet Murray
- The question: Why don’t men want to teach: John Crace: Primary schools have long been an almost entirely man-free zone, but research suggests that secondary schools could soon be heading the same way
- Sats blight children’s memories of school: Essays show 11-year-olds view final year of primary school as a time of anxiety and gloom
- New planning laws aim to end ‘studentification’ of towns: Change in planning law aims to disperse student populations and prevent holiday ghost towns
- Video: Sinai school’s link to space: Pupils talk to Nasa astronauts over a satellite link: best assembly ever?
- Astronaut does live chat with children at north London school: Astronaut carries out live chat from International Space Station with children at north London school
