A secondary school in Essex has banned all homework in a bid to allow teachers more time to plan lessons. Catherine Hutley, headteacher at Phillip Morant School and College in Colchester said her ...

A secondary school has taken the controversial step of banning homework to give their teachers more time to plan lessons. Phillip Morant School and College in Colchester, Essex, has abolished all ...

Schoolchildren are being taught about anal sex and orgasms before they have reached puberty and set 'masturbation' as homework, secretive lesson plans reveal. Many teachers are 'indoctrinating' ...

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Homework is a hot-button issue for both parents and teachers. When we asked the MindShift audience about it, we got a wide range of thoughtful answers. And the results of our poll were pretty evenly ...

Homework is a middle-class concept. It does not work, I discovered, in working-class schools where I spent my mornings over the past year. Like so many “common sense” ideas about schooling the world ...

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This week the finger seemed to be pointed clearly towards teachers with the surprising accusation that children in state schools are being turned out without any morals. The claim was made by Richard ...

Ola Kozak is celebrating. The 11-year-old, who loves music and drawing, expects to have more free time for her hobbies after Poland’s government ordered strict limits on the amount of homework in the ...