“I don’t get it!” “It’s boring…” “What’s the point in learning this?” These words can often be heard muttered in school Maths lessons, and moaned over kitchen tables laden with calculators, squared paper and...
About Dyslexia If a child is diagnosed with dyslexia, it can be challenging to know where to seek help. Parents may worry that they will struggle at school, or that they will be unable...
‘By good fortune I have lighted well On this young man, for learning and behaviour Fit for her turn, well read in poetry And other books—good ones, I warrant you.’ The Taming of the...
Everything is subject to trends, even education. A recent book by Robert Peal, Progressively Worse: The Burden of Bad Ideas in British Schools, examines one such trend, and claims that this trend has, almost...