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This week's Education News (11/9/10)
Here are links to a selection of education-related news articles: The National Audit Office has warned that the rapid expansion of England’s academies programme risks being poor value for money. Michael Gove responded with this comment. The former chairman of the Accounts Commission in Scotland has said that education authorities there should be merged in [...]
Show My Homework
Show My Homework is a new tool which makes it easy for teachers to post homework questions, attach worksheets and set deadlines. For students, they get to see all their homework on one page. For Parents, they can keep track of all their child’s homework. www.showmyhomework.co.uk Show My Homework can also send you a morning email [...]
Parents struggle to help their child with homework
The majority of parents frequently struggle to support their child’s learning outside the classroom according to a new report commissioned by Becta – the Government’s agency for technology in education. The study of 2000 parents and 2000 nine to 13 year olds, found that: There is a desire from parents to become more involved in [...]
Battling against homework
Last week, the Guardian published an article about a Canadian couple who launched and won a court case to exempt their children from completing homework ‘after successfully arguing there is no clear evidence it improves academic performance’. The article explains that ”Sherri and Tom Milley, two lawyers from Calgary, Alberta, launched their highly unusual case after [...]
One Million Giraffes
One Million Giraffes is an online project in which one person is hoping to collect 1 million giraffes by 2011. People are sending pictures of their giraffes (which can’t be created on a computer) and at the time of writing, the collection has reached over 250,000! Could your class get involved? Ask each child to [...]
Kent ICT Conference ’09
Phew.. what a week! Over the past seven days, I’ve been busy with an Ofsted inspection at school, our summer fair, and a visit to (including a short presentation at) the Kent ICT conference 2009. The conference was a chance to learn new ideas from the many speakers and talk to suppliers of educational / [...]
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