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Should schools take a long summer break – or is it detrimental to children’s learning?

18 May at 15:00 PM, via The Guardian

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts. This week, an educational concern …

Should schools still be taking a long summer break – is it detrimental to children’s learning? Or should they go year-round with shorter breaks? Julia Phillipson, Corby

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Oklahoma high schools to teach 2020 election conspiracy theories as fact

18 May at 00:18 AM, via The Guardian

State superintendent Ryan Walters tapped chief of Heritage Foundation, key player behind Project 2025, for curriculum

As part of the latest Republican push in red states to promote ideologies sympathetic to Donald Trump, Oklahoma’s new social studies curriculum will ask high school students to identify “discrepancies” in the 2020 election results.

The previous standard for studying the 2020...

‘Grit’ no substitute for extra mental health funding for pupils in England, say experts

16 May at 18:27 PM, via The Guardian

Education secretary earlier unveiled £49m for school-based support, as charity says many children have significant treatment needs

Ministers’ efforts to promote “grit” among children are no substitute for better funded mental health support in England’s schools, according to school leaders and experts.

Bridget Phillipson, the education secretary, and Wes Streeting, the health secretary, claimed...

‘Much-needed grit’ to be fostered in England’s schoolchildren, say ministers

16 May at 10:21 AM, via The Guardian

Increased mental health support for young people will give them resilience, say education and health secretaries

Schoolchildren will be helped to develop “much-needed grit” for life beyond school with increased mental health support, the education and health secretaries have said.

Writing in the Telegraph, Bridget Phillipson and Wes Streeting said they would roll out mental health support in...

UK asking other countries to host ‘return hubs’ for refused asylum seekers, Starmer confirms – UK politics live

15 May at 17:40 PM, via The Guardian

PM on trip to announce increased cooperation against people smugglers alongside Albania’s prime minister, Edi Rama

All Commons Speakers, at least for the past 30 years, have complained about the government making major announcements to the media first, and not to parliament first. But rarely have any of them sounded quite as furious about this as Lindsay Hoyle, who this morning delivered an...

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