Parents are sent a letter just as the new school year starts telling them A levels are being dropped.

The president seeking to overhaul the Smithsonian has a dark vision of the past that he’s using to advance his agenda

Of all the presidents, Donald Trump – the man who would remake the Smithsonian and alter its presentation of “how bad slavery was”, as he put it – is surely the most ignorant of American history itself.

What Trump doesn’t know fills the Library of Congress, whose chief...

The start of a new school year always awakens my resolve: time to be more disciplined, less cluttered and nicer to the cats

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Every year at this time, I think of a quote from the Bible, but which I know from Oranges Are Not the...

Federal judge in Boston orders reversal of administration’s cuts to more than $2.6bn in funding research grants

As part of the Trump administration’s campaign of mass deportations, the defense department will soon have hundreds of military judges work on immigration cases, the Associated Press reports:

The US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, has approved sending up to 600 military lawyers to...

We would like to hear your views on technology and screens in schools, and what it’s like to teach in classrooms

The use of screens technology in schools has grown from simply the use of computers and digital whiteboards. Some use artificial intelligence tools to enhance learning and others encourage children to use tablets.

Some are calling for smartphones to be legally banned at schools, or...

US schools were built for a cooler climate that no longer exists. Now they face record-high temperatures

As schools are returning to session following one of the hottest summers ever recorded, districts are faced with a new problem: how to handle increasingly extreme heatwaves, both in and outside the classroom.

Unbearably hot days are no longer just a summer problem. In the US districts from...

Dialects are powerful identifiers, especially when you’re from an ethnic minority

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There are times on The Long Wave desk when a conversation sparks a sort of group therapy session. A few weeks ago, Jason came back from a reporting trip to Barbados and made a comment about how some Bajans thought he was from the Caribbean, because his...

The court heard she accepted she had given up trying to get the boy, 16, to attend lessons.

The Reform UK deputy leader says some children are receiving Send provision who do not need it.

The university sector, which is reliant on overseas students for a quarter of income, is key to economic activity in cities like Leicester and Hull

A crackdown on international students in Britain could hurt struggling cities where universities help power the local economy, the government has been warned.

Tens of thousands of overseas students are being contacted by the Home Office to tell them...

Esther Ghey urges government to implement legal ban and says current guidance creates ‘postcode lottery’

Esther Ghey, the mother of the murdered teenager Brianna Ghey, and the Oscar-winning actor Kate Winslet are calling on Keir Starmer to legally ban smartphones in schools, warning current guidance against allowing phones has created a “postcode lottery”.

As children in England and Wales...