EDUCATION Secretary Michael Gove today unveils a plan to bring a dramatic improvement to classroom discipline by introducing military-style cadet forces to every secondary school.

Mr Gove was criticized by Mr David Laws yesterday for the Government’s plan to get the Independent education sector to bail out the State sector by encouraging them to sponsor academies, not the academies programme itself. Giving Head teachers more independence from Local authority control to deliver the best education possible for the children and young people in their schools, is very much in line with the philosophy and practice in the Independent sector. It is therefore not the idea but the way it is proposed to deliver it that …

By Julie Henry, Education Correspondent Telegraph
A third of parents are so unhappy with their child’s school they would advise other families not to send their children there, new figures from Ofsted have revealed.
Thousands of parents who have rated their schools on a new website run by the schools watchdog have raised concerns about teaching, behaviour, bullying and levels of homework. An initial analysis of results shows that just under a third of families with children at the 650 primary and secondary schools with sufficient responses to give results said they …

The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS Sunday Morning Commentary.
My confession:
I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejewelled trees, Christmas trees. I don’t feel threatened. I don’t feel discriminated against. That’s what they are, Christmas trees.
It doesn’t bother me a bit when people say, ‘Merry Christmas’ to me. I don’t think they’re slighting me or getting ready …

Supply Teachers UK Campaign Group

We have reached a crisis point within the education system of England and Wales, a crisis that may have a profound impact upon the education of your children and grandchildren for years to come. We have an absurd and evidenced situation of unqualified cover supervisors, HLTA, TA’s teaching and it as been reported even caretakers, and dinner ladies teaching children, while newly qualified and experienced supply teachers are being forced to leave the profession due to the lack of work. A profession, which to many …

On the 10th August 2010, Margaret Morrissey from ParentsOutloud was on BBC Radio Five Live show discussing the issue of school staff accused of mistreating pupils in the UK.
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On the 21st March 2010, Margaret Morrissey from ParentsOutloud was on the The Politics Show South about Bob Howitt from Action4Kids and Cllr John Hartley from Reading Borough Council.
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