Public schools is the writing on the whiteboard
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Like George Monbiot (Only class war on public schools can rid us of this unhinged ruling class, January 22), I too went through the public-school system, both as a pupil and a teacher, and have experience of the maintained sector, again as a teacher and a parent.That there is still a class system in this [...]
Crib sheet
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Small babes, large lessonsSeventeen-year-old Nathan Carson used to think having a baby with his girlfriend wouldn’t be too bad. “I probably thought, if it happens, it happens - we’ll manage somehow,” he says. Being involved in the reality TV show the Baby Borrowers, in which the BBC gave teenage couples live babies to care for [...]
A league table to worry us all
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The results of the third phase of Pisa (Programme for International Student Assessment) make interesting reading. Every three years, Pisa tests 400,000 15-year-olds from 54 countries in reading, maths and science. Like all international assessments, Pisa has methodological and statistical limitations. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), however, uses elaborate procedures to ensure [...]
