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Students at a pioneering group of US high schools have ditched the textbooks in favour of internships in jobs of their choosing – and completion rates and motivation are booming. Now the world is waking up to the individualised approach. Jon Marcus reports

Students at a pioneering group of US high schools have ditched the textbooks in favour of internships in jobs of their choosing – and completion rates and motivation are booming. Now the world is waking up to the individualised approach. Jon Marcus reports

Six months after 20 children and six teachers were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in the US, Jon Marcus visits the town and talks to educators about what lessons can be learned from the tragedy

Six months after 20 children and six teachers were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in the US, Jon Marcus visits the town and talks to educators about what lessons can be learned from the tragedy

Revisions to the curriculum in Texas, such as playing down the civil rights movement and the slave trade, are causing outrage

De-emphasise the civil rights movement, play down the slave trade and don’t focus on the Ku Klux Klan’s brutality. Such approved revisions to the curriculum and textbooks in Texas are causing outrage, as Jon Marcus reports