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Michael Shaw
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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
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
Teach text-speak to ‘improve pupils’ grammar’
5 November 2010
Specialist schools to live on despite losing #163;450m fund
29 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
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