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Reporting Highlights Seeking Recourse: Parents are increasingly turning to the complaint process to get help for their disabled children. Unresponsive Districts: When districts break the law,…

Two years ago, Sir Keir Starmer enthused about teaching speaking skills. So schools campaigners were understandably dismayed when oracy – otherwise known as speaking and listening…

The Education Department is moving quickly to carry out the higher ed changes in the recently passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The agency announced Thursday…

The White House has announced that it will release $5.5bn in frozen education funds back to US states.That announcement came on Friday after Donald Trump’s administration…

Matt Wrack, a former leader of the firefighters’ union, has been elected as permanent general secretary of the NASUWT teaching union after a ballot in which…

The children’s writer Michael Rosen, one-time political strategist Alastair Campbell and former education secretaries Charles Clarke and Estelle Morris have urged the prime minister to honour…

Earlier today I set you five “Kennections”, a puzzle devised by legendary US quiz show contestant and host Ken Jennings.Each challenge consists of five trivia questions,…

Before the Department of Education laid off half its staff in March, college financial aid officers on the west coast could typically help a student track…

Jeopardy! is the long-running US quiz show where contestants are given an answer and must respond with a question for that answer.“Ken Jennings”, for example, is…

In 2018, Dr Timberly Baker decided to home school her children after a local school in Arkansas failed to challenge her eldest child. Her daughter, Baker…