More fun fewer facts, pupils say
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Pupils prefer active learning with real-life relevance, a review of research studies suggests.
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The report says students are catching up to their worldwide counterparts but fourth-graders are not. By Michael Dobbs / Washington Post.
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U.S. eighth-grade students are improving in science and math compared with international peers, but the nation's fourth-graders have stagnant scores and are slipping behind in both subjects, according to a study of achievement across the globe.
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Geography is the worst-taught subjects in primary school and fewer teenagers are studying it, inspectors say.
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Science education in U.S. elementary   and middle schools is overly broad and superficial, according   to a government report issued on Thursday that also faults   science curricula for assuming children are simplistic   thinkers.
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The proportion of 14-year-olds reaching the expected standard in English fell last year but by less than thought.
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Schools in the North-East are being offered an education tool that builds children's knowledge of the water cycle.
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There is no evidence children in smaller primary classes do better in maths or English, researchers say.
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Almost a fifth of England's state secondary schools do not meet GCSE targets but things are improving.
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Too many maths tests from the age of seven are damaging pupils' enthusiasm and knowledge, a report says.
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NEW YORK  - Getting teenagers more active   in school life may lower the odds that they will smoke, drink,   use drugs or have sex, a new study suggests.
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Report laments 'phrase book' standards Foreign language teaching in the UK's state schools has been reduced to "the sort of thing you find in a 'get by' phrase book", claims a doom-and-gloom report published yesterday.â¦
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CHILDREN had so much fun during a science day at Radford Primary School in Coventry, some of them didn't even realise they'd been learning.  The Science in a Suitcase show, giving pupils the chance to do hands-on science experiments, visited the school in Lawrence Saunders Road, Radford.
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The government is accused underplaying  the science teacher shortage in England's schools.
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Pupils could soon face tests of their creativity under plans to boost the kind of "soft skills".
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For all the differences between the sexes, here's one that might stir up debate in the teacher's lounge: Boys learn more from men and girls learn more from women.
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A study concluded that high school students are earning better grades, but their reading skills are not improving.