It would be fitting if it became known as education's Henry Webster moment: when at long last schools took an even firmer line to eradicate bullying.
Continue reading SCR urges schools to act on racial bullying.
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A favourite line of Tony Allen, who helped revolutionise stand-up comedy in the 1980s, was: "I'm an agnostic. No, I go further than that; I'm a militant agnostic. I KNOW I don't know."
Last night on More 4, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins showed that he also goes further, as a militant atheist.
Continue reading Richard Dawkins, faith and the rights of the child.
I fear for the health of the policy gurus at Iain Duncan Smith's Centre for Social Justice. Their seeming long hours and late nights dedicated to keeping us informed of the continuing tremors along the fault line of broken Britain appear to be inducing a form of amnesia.
Continue reading Iain Duncan Smith and his forgetful army.
Action for Children's latest report shows a disturbing rise in the number child neglect cases. Perhaps as many as 1.5 million children suffer a form of neglect - and in England last year nearly 17,000 children were registered on child protection plans.
Continue reading Joint-working can address the rise in child neglect.
That should stick it to the dyslexia deniers. An inquiry led by former Ofsted inspector Sir Jim Rose has prompted the government to help children who are held back at school because of the learning difficulty.
Continue reading One in the eye for dyslexia deniers.
First, the good news: sex education is to be made compulsory in all state schools in England, reports The Guardian.
Continue reading Sex education move is a charter for bigots.
Sir Alan Steer, the government's school behaviour tsar
(yes, there is one), is concerned about the influence on pupils of celebrity
culture - if indeed culture is the right word.
Continue reading That'll teach 'em good behaviour.
Education, education, education. But not of the religious kind, please. And especially not collective worship, also known as assembly.
Continue reading Religious worship in schools is so divisive.
For those of us who are concerned about the destruction of the natural world, the plan to turn the Chagos Islands into a marine reserve on the scale of Australia's Great Barrier Reef is an exciting one.
Continue reading Indian Ocean special: Chagos hypocrisy and work in the Maldives.
If the point of A Good Childhood was to maintain the profile of The Children's Society and provide the charity with some positive publicity, it worked.
Continue reading The Children's Society and the bleedin' obvious.
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