Welcome to standardized testing season, when students nationwide are clearing their desks, sharpening their pencils and fighting feelings of anxiety to meet our schools’, states’, and federal government’s desire for a simple, quantifiable way to measure them. Is this really what education is about?
What matters more than labelling children is that teachers and parents understand how to overcome the barriers to progress, says Garry Freeman, Special Education Needs Coordinator for a school in Leeds.
Formal schooling should be delayed by at least 12 months because an over-emphasis on the three-Rs at an early age can cause significant long-term damage to bright children, according to a leading academic.
Author Sami Rahman, co-founder of the online database of disability-friendly mobile applications known as BridgingApps , offers tips in this blog post to help teachers and parents customize iPads for students with disabilities.
A recent survey of teachers in the United Kingdom reveals that about half of those questioned had, in the past year, considered leaving the profession.
Children are failing to pick up traditional values at school as teachers increasingly prioritise exam results over the development of pupils' "character", according to a leading headmaster.