Specialist schools 'not better'
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Research suggests specialist status does little if anything to improve a school's performance.
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A charity says children in the UK have less chance of improving their social standing than those in any other country.
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Struggling schools are to receive more regular inspections, says education watchdog, Ofsted.
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Finland, where there are no wholly-private schools, beat the top-ranking schools in Hong-Kong, Japan and Korea in maths and science - but the UK was left out of the study after the government failed to deliver the statistics.
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BBC education correspondent Mike Baker on why inspectors say citizenship lessons in England's schools are inadequate.
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Schools are struggling to cope with increasing numbers of pupils with mental health problems, research suggests.
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Extra student funding would be better targeted at raising standards in school, says a financial think-tank.
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Exam boards in England insist science GCSEs are not getting easier.
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Primary schoolchildren in England fail to produce better academic results than their Western counterparts even though they start school at an earlier age and are subjected to more tests, a leading educational study said Friday.
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Pupils in primary and secondary schools across England lack an overview of history, Ofsted warns.
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Researchers claim that teaching formal grammar is not the best way to teach writing.
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Secondary schools in England and Wales find it easier to recruit heads - but primaries still struggle.
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A watchdog warns many vulnerable children may not be receiving suitable or cost-effective education.
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Some schools are spending more on putting pupils through exams than on books, head teachers say.
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The BBC's Mike Baker asks what exactly specialist school are and how they can raise overall standards.
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Poorer children are not more likely to take up a school place allocated through a  lottery, researchers say.
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Some of the new academies set up with help from business have better GCSE results than the schools they replaced.