League tables for gifted pupils
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The number of gifted and talented pupils in secondary schools is to be included in league tables in England.
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The BBC's Mike Baker looks at the future of school tests.
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Teachers are urged to adopt new strategies to help children who fall behind in English and maths.
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Schools are being given rules for how they use and store pupils' biometric information, such as fingerprints.
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An new maths A-level should be introduced to attract those who are not stretched, says QCA
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In recent testing by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Alberta teens placed in the top three for their scores in math, reading and science.
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In Middlesex League boys' hockey, consistent powers such as Reading, Woburn, and Burlington tend to rule the standings. Other teams have been waiting years for the chance to make a mark. For Lexington, it has been 24 years.
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As previously mentioned, Nick Halstead will be revealing the top three places in the results from the programming competition he was hosting. Today starts the top three list with third place - an entry from Karol Grecki:   I was really impressed with Karol's entry and if it was not for the fact that it did not 'run out of the box' it would have been a close cut thing to be the winner. The fact is that because it was a pain to get running the two other judges only gave it 1 point each.   The post includes Karol's solution - a method that involved using the Zend Framework as a backdrop. You can see the application in action on Karol's website or just download the code and play along at home.
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Schools are looking to use an increasingly popular way to analyzing test scores, which tracks the progress of students as they move from grade to grade.
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Grade-school math plus time can add up to big bucks in the bank.
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Cos they know all about 'secure' databases... The government will announce plans tomorrow to give every English child an identifying number and a database entry of their school qualifications.â¦
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No winners last year, the gauntlet is down BrainAcademy, the competition that hands out bursaries to promising computer science students, is kicking off again this summer. Last year the challenge proved too tough for the entrants: no one managed to survive all three elimination rounds to claim the prize.â¦
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The most physically fit group of third-, fourth- and fifth-graders tend to score highest on an academic test known as the Illinois Standard Achievement Test, a group of researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign reports.
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Pupils at four primary schools are being given the choice of starting lessons at different times of the day.
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The BBC's Mike Baker asks whether plans for four hours of school sport a week are feasible.
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When Penn Manor High School technology teacher Shawn Canady asked for volunteers to create interactive-learning games for first- graders, three of his students stood up.  When the task was completed hundreds of hours later, only one student was left standing: senior Rob Drummond.
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Pupils in Wales have a GCSE pass rate of almost 98% - outperforming youngsters in England and Northern Ireland.