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Teaching is demanding work: long hours, low pay, and a profession increasingly shaped by the politicization of public education. Teachers also have to contend with worsening…

To offer students extra credit—that is the question.In fact, it’s an age-old question, one that some systems, liked standards-based grading, claim to answer by completely eliminating…

Full maternity pay for teachers across the UK should be increased to 26 weeks to help stem the exodus of women in their 30s from classrooms,…

A teacher who became ill from a rat infestation and another who was injured after a pupil threw a toaster and chair are among UK school…

Almost half of primary school teachers are seeing pupils with eating disorders “at least occasionally”, rising to four in five at secondary level, according to a…

Zack Polanski tells NEU teachers’ union Greens oppose academisation and would abolish ‘toxic, failed’ OfstedThe Green party would abolish Ofsted because they view it as a…

Teachers are used to outbreaks of rudeness and defiance from their pupils, but are now saying parents are some of the worst offenders and affecting staff…

Thursday is World Book Day in the UK and Ireland, with many primary schools encouraging children to take part.However, schools in England are moving away from…

Teachers and parents in the UK need to be brave and discuss Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes with children and young people or risk them looking for answers…

San Francisco teachers who staged their first strike in decades over wages and family health benefits have reached a tentative agreement with the school district.The San…