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Anne Longfield urges government to act on early intervention and support for children with complex needs
‘The worst it’s ever been’: teachers decry Send crisis in England’s schools
Children with special education needs and disabilities (Send) have been victims of a “vicious downward spiral” of declining support over the past decade, pushing more families into crisis, said the former...
Staff and parents share their experience as number of pupils with special educational needs spirals
Send provision in ‘vicious downward spiral’, says former children’s commissioner
“The Send [Special educational needs and disabilities] system is broken: completely and irrevocably,” said David Wilson, a deputy headteacher at an inner-city Manchester primary school where there were between six...
The two-year paramedic science masters degree will begin in January.
Algunos golpean. Otros graban. Los encuentros violentos entre estudiantes de todo el país, agravados por la tecnología, son un nuevo y complejo desafío para los educadores.
Paul Barreto’s father, Mickey, lived at the New Yorker Hotel in Manhattan for five years, paying only $200.57. Paul was desperate to escape.
Five fives alive!
As is traditional for the final column of year, we look ahead to all that the following twelve months will bring us.
Numerically speaking, of course.
442 = 1936
452 = 2025
462 = 2116
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The book’s removal is welcomed by the children’s commissioner amid concern about racist language.
Helen Pidd visits Lancaster Royal grammar school to see the work of Parallel Histories, an education charity which helps young people make sense of contested history
Parallel Histories is an educational charity that offers a new way of studying contested history. It helps students navigate the history of Israel and Palestine, the Northern Ireland conflict, Putin and Ukraine, and the impact of...
As council cuts costs due to effective bankruptcy, parents face an exhausting battle to get support for their children
£100m spent on failed efforts to block Send supportAnalysis: Why England’s Send system is buckling
It was as a last resort that Paul McAnenny launched an online fundraiser to help him pay for the fuel needed to drive his son to a special school on the other side of Birmingham,...
Exclusive: Councils win just 1.2% of tribunals, as experts see signs provision is becoming a battle with desperate families
Analysis: Why England’s Send system is buckling‘Fobbed off and rejected’: Birmingham’s Send crisis
More than £100m was spent last year by local authorities and the government on failed efforts to block support for children and young people with special educational needs...
No quick fix for a system that is failing children and parents and pushing councils into insolvency
£100m spent on failed efforts to block Send support‘Fobbed off and rejected’: Birmingham’s Send crisis
It was all meant to be so different. Announcing sweeping reforms of the special needs provision in England’s schools a decade ago, the then children’s minister Edward Timpson promised a...
Some college students and faculty members are seeking space for nuanced perspectives on the Israel-Hamas war on deeply divided campuses.
While the rules can be strict and firm, the vast majority of children are well-adjusted, happy and well-cared for
We are parents and carers of current and former students at Mossbourne Community academy and Mossbourne Victoria Park academy, including parents of children with special needs. We feel the articles in the Observer do not represent the spectrum of experiences and opinions of parents,...
Five schools agreed to changes after reports that they failed to protect students from antisemitism and anti-Arab and anti-Muslim discrimination.
The government needs to go further on pay and workload if it is to retain high-quality teachers in schools
Great teaching is the most powerful lever schools have to improve children’s education, according to the Education Endowment Foundation. So, how the education system recruits, trains, retains and supports teachers is one of the most important questions for politicians and policymakers...
Deputy head Vickie Johnson asked for a switch to part-time employment to balance work with parenthood but hit a brick wall that is causing problems in many schools
UK teachers should be allowed to work from home, education secretary says
Vickie Johnson was a deputy headteacher at a small primary school in Greater Manchester working exhausting 60-hour weeks when she became pregnant with her son....
Bridget Phillipson insists move to marking and class preparation out of school would help stem retention crisis
‘We need a total culture change’: the teacher told to work 60-hour week or leave after having baby
All state school teachers should given the right to work away from the classroom on lesson preparation, marking and pupil assessment to stem a growing retention crisis in the profession,...
Thomas Conley was sitting next to Isaiah Rodriguez at lunch when he noticed something was wrong.
Almost 300 children with special needs in Worcestershire are being home schooled.
The job status of Pedro Martinez, the chief executive of Chicago Public Schools, had been in doubt for months amid tension with Mayor Brandon Johnson.
The decision to withdraw the regulations was a tacit acknowledgment that they would go nowhere under the Trump administration.