‘Teenagers are exhausting’: Teacher and author Carol Atherton on why her profession deserves more respect
The Head of English at a Lincolnshire secondary school discusses the crisis in education and her mission to make literature live for a new generation
February 2024
Children's book roundup
Children’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels
A show of inner strength; stone age family life; a brilliant guide to the brain; plus a whistlestop tour of queer history and more
September 2023
The big idea
The big idea: how do we make future generations smarter?
Our education system needs a radical rethink for the digital age
March 2023
Other lives
Rachel Foakes obituary
Other lives: Writer of education books, activist and Labour town councillor
August 2022
Pearson plans to sell its textbooks as NFTs
Educational publisher’s move into non-fungible tokens is intended to claw back some of the income lost to secondhand sales
March 2022
Shares in education publisher Pearson jump 20% on hopes of private equity bid
Market value increases by nearly £1bn as Apollo considers improved cash offer after £6.4bn deal rejected
September 2021
Wonderworks by Angus Fletcher review – the power of invention
A close analysis of the science of stories reveals literature’s ability to change its readers, and the world
September 2020
Nepotism, fraud, waste and cheating ... welcome to England's school system
A Nottingham professor has collated 3,800 examples of bad practice she says go to the heart of government. Now she has written a book
May 2020
Book of the day
Wild Child by Patrick Barkham review – why children need nature
From blackberry picking to digging a pond ... a perfect lockdown reminder of how having fun outdoors is essential for children, in cities as well as the countryside
November 2019
The Ingenious Language by Andrea Marcolongo review – nine epic reasons to love Greek
An exhilarating argument that ancient Greek offers us uniquely ‘concise, explosive, ironic, open-ended modes of expression’
August 2019
Other lives
Vivian Gussin Paley obituary
Other lives: Inspirational figure in early years education
July 2019
School textbooks are on the way out – and pupils will lose so much with them
Sam Leith
Pearson shifts to Netflix-style subscription model for textbooks
August 2017
Pearson to axe 3,000 jobs after slump at main US business
Cost-cutting move aims to save educational publisher about £300m a year with 10% cut in global staff after biggest loss in history in 2016
July 2016
Other lives
Maurice Holt obituary
Other lives: Educationist for whom teaching and learning were about values and not just a delivery system for facts
October 2015
Harry Potter magic continues at Bloomsbury as sales grow
The Jewish story, the Arab story … and a plan by Mr Davies
August 2015
Books have the power to transform African lives
Letters: A World Bank report in May 2015 emphasises the urgent need to get textbooks into the hands of every student
June 2015
Historians crowdsource key reads about racial violence in America
With the help of Twitter, scholars and librarians put together a Charleston Syllabus for educators to situate the shooting within racial and national contexts
February 2015
Accidence Will Happen review – bad English is no hanging offence
Oliver Kamm rightly damns the sticklers for ‘correct’ English but also undervalues the power of the word
