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The Guardian: Schools in England told not to use material from anti-capitalist groups
The Guardian: Schools in England told not to use material from anti-capitalist groups

Idea categorised as ‘extreme political stance’ equivalent to endorsing illegal activity.

The government has ordered schools in England not to use resources from organisations which have expressed a desire to end capitalism.

Department for Education (DfE) guidance issued on Thursday for school leaders and teachers involved in setting the relationship, sex and health curriculum categorised anti-capitalism as an “extreme political stance” and equated it with opposition to freedom of speech, antisemitism and endorsement of illegal activity.

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Business, Education, English, Exam Results, Higher Education, History, Media ArticleSarah NorrisLando EducationDepartment for Education, Lando Education, Lando, extreme political stance, anti-capitalist, anti-capitalist groups, The Guardian, school leaders, teachers, British History, John McDonnell, freedom of speech, antisemitism, democracy, capitalism, British history, politics, Jessica Simor QC, international lawComment
The Guardian: London maths teacher shortlisted for $1m teaching prize
The Guardian: London maths teacher shortlisted for $1m teaching prize

Dr Jamie Frost’s tuition website went viral during lockdown, helping millions of pupils around the world with their studies.

A London mathematics teacher has been shortlisted for a $1m (£780,000) international teaching prize after his tuition website went global during lockdown, helping millions of pupils in the UK and around the world to continue their maths studies at home.

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Education, Exam Results, Maths, Lockdown, Media Article, Pandemic, STEAM, STEMSarah NorrisLando Education$1m teaching prize, Dr Jamie Frost, The Varkey Foundation, maths, Lando Education, Lando, maths lead, Tiffin School, DrFrostMaths, pupils, teachers, school, Oxford University, website, Unesco, Stefania Giannini, Mokhudu Cynthia Machaba, Leah Juelke, Yun Jeong-hyun, Andria Zafirakou, Peter TabichiComment
The Times: Pupils aren’t up to sitting exams next year, say teachers
The Times: Pupils aren’t up to sitting exams next year, say teachers

A survey found that over 50 per cent of teachers with pupils due to take exams next summer felt they were not on track to get the results they should achieve.

Questions surround next year’s GCSE and A-level exams after ministers, unions and private schools raised doubts that they would run as normal.

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Education, Exam Results, Higher Education, Lockdown, Media Article, Pandemic, ScotlandSarah NorrisLando EducationLando Education, Lando, lockdown, pandemic, The Times, teaching, exams, schools, GCSEs, pupils, teachers, survey, Scotland, Highers, Higher Education, National Education Union, Headmasters and Headmistresses Conference, HMC, Simon Hyde, curriculum, Teacher Tapp appComment
TES: Why we must scrap GCSEs: 4 ways to form a better system
TES: Why we must scrap GCSEs: 4 ways to form a better system

Sarah Fletcher, the high mistress of St Paul's Girls' School in London and a member of the HMC, offers thoughts on better ways young people can be assessed than out-dated GCSEs.

Everything has changed over the past few months.

We have put students from across the world in the same classrooms, safeguarded new ways of working and shared resources and online platforms.

Most extraordinary of all, teachers have helped in the awarding of grades and we have cancelled all assessments from key stage 1 to key stage 5.

Imagining the unimaginable is something we should do more often! And what better place to start than with the curriculum?

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Education, Business, Exam Results, Family, Higher Education, Lockdown, Media Article, Pandemic, Self & WellbeingSarah NorrisLando EducationSPGS, St Paul's Girls' School, independent schools, private schools, state schools, GCSE, kill off GCSEs, Sarah Fletcher, headmistress, students, classrooms, teachers, key stage 5, modern curriculum, outdated system, demagogy of a cyber world, demagogy, cyber world, Global affairsComment
The Guardian: Private and state schools bid to kill off GCSEs
The Guardian: Private and state schools bid to kill off GCSEs

A coalition of private and state schools is expected to launch a campaign to end GCSEs, as growing numbers of schools look at alternatives to the exams following the summer algorithm debacle.

Eton, Bedales, St Paul’s girls’ school, Latymer upper school and several substantial academy chains have been joined by Margaret Thatcher’s education secretary, Kenneth Baker, who created GCSEs, to discuss proposals for replacing the exam system.

The group, Rethinking Assessments, is likely to launch a formal campaign in the next few weeks, forcing ministers into a battle for control of school qualifications.

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The Times: Fears grow as teachers die weeks into new school year
The Times: Fears grow as teachers die weeks into new school year

United States
Teachers in at least three states have died after contracting coronavirus since the start of the new school year, with teachers’ unions concerned that the return to in-person classes will have a deadly effect across the country if proper precautions are not taken.

AshLee DeMarinis, 34, who taught social skills at a school in Missouri, died on Sunday after three weeks in hospital. A third-grade teacher died on Monday in South Carolina, and two other teachers died in Mississippi. It is not clear how many teachers have become ill with Covid-19 since the school year began but Mississippi has reported 604 cases among school teachers and staff.

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Independent: Ofqual suggests online exams could be option next summer in wake of this year’s grading chaos
Independent: Ofqual suggests online exams could be option next summer in wake of this year’s grading chaos

‘Some form of examination’ needed for students to feel system is fair, Roger Taylor says.

Roger Taylor has said it was a "fundamental mistake" to believe the public would get behind this year's grading system.

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Exam Results, Education, Family, Higher Education, Media Article, PandemicSarah NorrisLando EducationOfqual, media article, GCSE, A'levels, pandemic, COVID19, school, education, Tories, Conservatives, downgraded, exams cancelled, NAHT, teachers, assessment, logarithmComment
Guardian: ‘I do not see a single student wash their hands': teacher’s diary of the first week back at school
Guardian: ‘I do not see a single student wash their hands': teacher’s diary of the first week back at school

My 12 year old is back on the tube school. We have to trust that she will be sensible and do the right thing. Her school have very detailed instructions and have created year bubbles. They spend the last 5mins of each lesson cleaning their desks etc.

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The Times: School woos 26 ex pupils to teach
The Times: School woos 26 ex pupils to teach

Many youngsters cannot wait to leave their schooldays behind — but one head teacher is so inspiring she has convinced 26 of her former pupils to return as teachers or other staff at their old school.

Rhian Morgan Ellis has formed her very own old boys’ and girls’ club at a secondary school in the Welsh valleys. It includes a former head boy and head girl in her senior management team, as well as a former pupil who started as a dinner lady and is now a support teacher for vulnerable pupils after Morgan Ellis spotted her gift for working with children. All 26 are on the 77-strong staff simultaneously.

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