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Curriculum Cop 10

Curriculum Cop tears into academies, among many other things

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The Edge Foundation opposes the policy to require 90% of 16-year-olds to enter GCSEs in the full English Baccalaureate.

Willow Tree

The inspiration of local history

Jo Carrington

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An introduction to the Self-Managed Learning College

Ian Cunningham

Meeting

Why most adults can’t manage democratic discussions

Jason Preater

man

Curriculum Cop 9

Rachel

A transcript of a Radio Four Thought broadcast

Rachel Roberts

A pollarded tree

How children who have had their talents chopped off, have been helped to recover

Ian Cunningham

Zoe Readhead

How the Department for Education is wriggling out of the commitments agreed in 2000

Zoe Redhead

Pig

Curriculum Cop 8

Noticeboard

An experiment in free, co-operative higher education

Kinoki

A successful alternative school in Japan

Shinichiro Hori

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Concerned for Working Children (CWC)

Rivington St sign

An account of an attempted innovation in 1968

Jakob Jakobsen

Etonian student

Curriculum Cop

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Reactions against imposed curricula in the USA and the UK

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A French educator’s reaction to the recent terrorist attacks

Jean-Pierre Quayret

Children

A brief introduction to the transformation of education in Colombia

A boy

A hitherto unrecorded incident in the life of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s young hero

Helmut Zöpfl

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How Summerhill principles have been adopted at a home-schooling annexe in Gloucestershire

Hussein Lucas

Toffs

Toff Aid

Book Cover

Progressively Worse, by Robert Peal: David Hansen

Sad
An all-embracing new approach in an Indian primary school

Jinan. K.B, and Ranjana Baji

Jerry
What the results of the American election mean for education

Jerry  Mintz

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Aaron Keohane

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Art is Money

Video

Falko Peschel’s Bildungsschule Harzberg, where young children decide how to use their time.

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How school pupils are indoctrinated in thinking about education.

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A distinction between statistics and reality.

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William Brown, as reported by Richmal Crompton.

Straitjacket
Curriculum Cop assures us that it is not.

Shoe
A small infringement of school uniform rules.

Two boys

The work of the amazing Indian group, Concerned for Working Children.

Lecturer

A TED.x talk by the founder of Nuestra Escuela in Puerto Rico.

Downhills school

An account of the government assault on Down Hills Primary School in Tottenham.

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A report and some news of developments

Assemblea
How the traditional Italian school makes life difficult for anarchist teachers
Edmondo

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An account of the discovery of the importance of choice
Sean Bellamy

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Curriculum Cop

Zombie Students
A communiqué from the Coalition of Grassroots Educators

Book Cover
A review of Nick Duffel's book on the harm done by boarding-school survivors
David Gribble

Students interviewing each other
A documentary made by a group of London school students.

Jess Green
Written and performed by poet Jess Green.

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Programme Announcement for the March conference

A teacher, Ms Zhang, slapping a student in the face at her class. The Chinese characters on the wall say ‘self-confidence’, ‘being united as one’ and ‘diligence’. (From the internet)
What happens in the schools in Shanghai

Book cover
A new look at Paul Goodman’s Compulsory Miseducation

Homer Lane
The Centenary of The Little Commonwealth

Curriculum Cop
Curriculum Cop welcomes traditional methods

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A last-minute chance to apply for a scholarship to study ‘Freedom to Learn’.

Factory School
Teachers in despair over the current atmosphere in schools.
Hussein Lucas