TUESDAY, 21 JANUARY 2025, 12:54
Canyon independent school district briefly removed text – and then reinstated it – to comply with state’s Reader Act
A school district in the Texas panhandle temporarily removed the Bible – and reinstated it soon after – in an effort to comply with a controversial new state law that bans sexually explicit materials in schools.
House Bill 900 – also called the Restricting Explicit and...
Six-week-old James Alderman died after he was breastfed within a baby sling worn by his mother.
Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy says children are missing out on educational TV because of how online platforms operate.
An oral history project, “Planting Seeds,” considers the history and impact of an American Dance Festival program to train dancers in China.
James Hunt says he will never regret becoming a full-time carer to his two autistic sons.
Exclusive: Frank Cottrell-Boyce says Conservative funding freeze over 14 years has created ‘enormous’ equality gap
The poor state of school buildings is exposing pupils to “irreparable” harm, the UK’s children’s laureate has said, after a Guardian investigation revealed that more than 1.5 million students in England were being taught in dilapidated schools.
The award-winning screenwriter Frank...
Exclusive: Full structural surveys to be carried out on representative sample of about 100 system-built blocks
Ministers have ordered intrusive structural surveys of a group of ageing, postwar school buildings in England amid mounting concern about hidden defects that could lead to structural failures.
After the reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (Raac) crisis, which closed schools and...
The education secretary defends ending tax breaks for private schools as the policy is set to begin.
The yawning gap between funding and demand means that parents are right to fear how the government will react
For millions of us who have children with special educational needs and disabilities (Send), 2024 was a strange and often unsettling year. For a long time, we have been used to quietly fighting our battles in a political and media vacuum. But suddenly, everything has exploded: as the...
Exclusive: UK teenagers placed in temporary housing until they are adults as there are fewer obligations to support them if they are not care leavers
Councils are treating teenagers like homeless adults and placing them in unsuitable temporary housing rather than taking them into care, new research has shown.
Local authorities are “waiting out the clock” when assessing vulnerable 16- and...
In a private property market where supply is restricted, increased family wealth can simply drive up the cost of suitable homes
Improvements in the education of girls is one of the most positive shifts in the developing world over the past decade. Supported by aid agencies, including Camfed and more recently the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, efforts to send girls to primary and...
Pupils at Sacred Heart Catholic school in Barrow-in-Furness are in temporary classrooms and education is suffering
Revealed: 1.5m children in England studying in unfit school buildings
Tinsel glistens through the window of the darkened classroom. But the decorations are not from this Christmas, or last. A whiteboard marks the date when pupils and staff were evacuated in a hurry from Sacred...
Underinvestment has led to crumbling infrastructure in schools, hospitals and courts, Guardian study shows
‘Our school has been homeless for two years’
More than 1.5 million children are studying in dilapidated school buildings, a Guardian investigation has found, with years of underinvestment leaving England’s public infrastructure in a crumbling state.
A study of public sector building...
Education experts have found low attainment in subjects like maths and science in Scotland this year.
Lawn Manor Academy pupils are to represent the UK in a performance in New York in July.
About 34,000 Ukrainian children have fled to UK since Russian invasion – yet are unable to study their mother tongue
Ukraine is lobbying the UK government to give teenage refugees who fled the war-torn country the chance to study a GCSE in Ukrainian, amid reports they are instead being pressed to study Russian.
Ukraine’s education ministry has written to the education secretary, Bridget...
Only 25% of institution’s students are from Scotland, and they are more likely to be from working-class backgrounds
From the first day Shanley Breese started her law degree at the University of Edinburgh, she encountered demeaning comments about her accent. She was told she was hard to understand and was asked to repeat herself in tutorials when she used words from the Scots language.
“It was...
Twenty local authorities in England signed up eligible pupils without waiting for parents to do so
A new scheme enabling families to sign up to free school meals has enabled 20,000 more children to be fed.
As well as preventing those children from going hungry, the “auto-enrolment” pilot project is saving households hundreds of pounds a year.
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The president and vice president of the University of Michigan’s student assembly were impeached after they demanded divestment and stopped funding campus activities.
A letter signed by more than 300 parents is defending two schools over “toxic culture” claims.
The solutions to today’s puzzles
Earlier today I set you the following two puzzles loosely related to 2025. (For more information on the number 2025 please read the original post.) Here they are again with the solutions.
Queens and pawns
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