Primary Education

Parental choice on schools 'increases social divide'

Poor parents pick child's school because it is close to home, while middle-class parents go on good academic record Giving parents a choice over primary schools increases the social divide, a study reveals. The majority of poor...

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History? It's history

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...

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An ongoing process of learning before, during and after they qualify

Published Date: 21 November 2009 PRIMARY • Primary teachers can qualify through three different courses. • A four-year Bachelor of Education (BEd) degree course is offered at six Scottish universities. • A joint...

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Debate on playtime's value grows as more states fund preschool

On a recent Thursday, 5-year-old Estefani Lovo Rivera took charge of a make-believe hair salon in her preschool classroom at Oakridge Elementary in Arlington County. Wielding a plastic fork as a hairbrush, dispatching customer...

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Denver science teacher named Teacher of the Year

By Mike McPhee The Denver Post A science teacher at an impoverished elementary school in north Denver has been named Colorado Teacher of the Year for 2010. Justin Darnell, who teaches at the Bryant-Webster Elementary School at...

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The long road to examination reforms

Education is expected to remedy the perpetuation of the beliefs and practices through which patriarchy operates, but it can hardly do this when its own rituals are no less ossified and oppressive. The justification being given...

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Education for the real world

INSIGHT: DOWN SOUTH By SEAH CHIANG NEE Government plans call for developing school pupils in other than academic pursuits, with less emphasis on exams, to equip young people better for life. FOR years, Singapore’s schools have...

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Bryant-Webster nominee wins Teacher of the Year

A science teacher at an impoverished elementary school in north Denver has been named Colorado Teacher of the Year for 2010. Justin Darnell, who teaches at the Bryant-Webster Elementary School at West 36th Avenue and Quivas...

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Places of worship across SW Florida

Here is a list of area places of worship. Please send any changes to the Naples Daily News, 1100 Immokalee Road, Naples, FL 34110; e-mail to features@naplesnews.com; or fax to 403-6138; or e-mail to snmesulam@naplesnews.com...

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Shifting students could pave way for Parkside's French immersion

SUMMERSIDE – Parkside Elementary could soon be welcoming French immersion students. A committee is currently studying the impact of introducing kindergarten classes at Parkside, Elm Street and Greenfield schools.

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