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Michael Shaw
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Cutbacks on the arts will widen class divide, head warns
Cuts to extra-curricular arts activities will widen the class gap in education, a head feted for his work in inner-city schools has warned
12 November 2010
Atlantic drift: now high-performing Alberta tells us the secret of its success
Visiting academic flags up small class sizes and teacher investment
12 November 2010
Teach text-speak to ‘improve pupils’ grammar’
5 November 2010
Specialist schools to live on despite losing #163;450m fund
29 October 2010
From the forums - Love’s dung dream and a few flashes of genius
Strange gifts from the heart, science with a bang, and those witty ripostes just keep on coming
22 October 2010
Gadgets might have to give way as chalk and pencils endure
Old-fashioned materials are teachers’ flexible friends in a technology-heavy classroom of the future
22 October 2010