Friday
Quantitative reasoning: why it matters for primary maths
The national curriculum fails to emphasise the importance of the ability to reason about quantities, says Louise Matthews, who explores how it can be taught
Can citizenship be squeezed into a ‘bursting’ primary curriculum?
Citizenship education is to become mandatory in primary schools. But how realistic is it to expect schools to fit a subject ranging from law to finances and media literacy into an already-busy timetable?
Tuesday
Reading for pleasure needs a ‘higher profile’ at school, MPs told
Education experts giving evidence to an MPs’ inquiry into the decline in children reading for pleasure make four recommendations to address the problem
Jane Larsson: ‘International schools must reflect the communities they serve’
The Council of International Schools’ executive director talks exclusively to 91¶¶Òõ about the need for international schools to diversify their leaders, staff and curricula – and the threat that ‘nationalistic measures’ pose
Friday
White disadvantaged girls see sharpest drop at GCSE
Leaders call for the government to set out targeted action amid fears that girls are being overlooked in the drive to improve white working-class pupils’ outcomes
Lack of home reading prompts school concerns over language skills
A quarter of parents avoid reading to their children because they lack belief in their own ability, finds Parentkind poll, as schools contend with ‘weaker language foundations’
Tuesday
How to teach about the Holocaust in the digital age
To address the risk of children encountering misinformation online, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance has updated its recommendations for teaching and learning about the Holocaust
GCSE reading lists ‘will take decades’ to reflect UK diversity
Teachers need more support to introduce texts to the classroom that provide GCSE English literature students with a more diverse choice, warns report
Thursday
How school leaders can tackle Scotland’s tech gender crisis
The growing gender gap in computing science is worrying not only for equality but also the economy – but there are practical, proven strategies schools leader can adopt, says Toni Scullion
The transformative effect of reducing Reception class sizes
Shackleton Primary more than doubled the number of its children reaching a good level of development after cutting its Reception classes from 30 to 20. Ellen Peirson-Hagger hears how it achieved this improvement
