Leader: Education bill 
Leader: Ruth Kelly reasserted last week that her education bill was aimed at “improving attainment of all our children and especially those from deprived backgrounds”.
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Footballers tell children to take a dive into books
The World Cup will be a nerve-racking month for England’s top footballers. Luckily for Rio Ferdinand, he has the perfect way to relax and focus before a match - a good book.
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Bring it to mind
Nili Raviv teaches children breathing and relaxation techniques and endorses a regime of repetitive exercises to help children improve their concentration skills. Frances Childs reports on her controversial ‘cure’ for dyslexia.
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Parenting cafe: conflict after divorce
The column that helps to make life happier for families, by Karen Gardner and Caroline Quinton Smith.
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Bring it to mind
Nili Raviv teaches children breathing and relaxation techniques and endorses a regime of repetitive exercises to help children improve their concentration skills. Frances Childs reports on her controversial ‘cure’ for dyslexia.
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Wife accused of Cambridge stabbing ‘wanted to die’
A woman accused of trying to kill her husband’s lover tells court she felt betrayed, empty and “like it was the end of the world”.
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Lambeth parents’ group takes schools campaign to polls
Parents from a south London borough are fielding eight candidates in next week’s local elections in a bid to stop half of all the children leaving the area to go to school.
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AUT fails to allay student fears over boycott
The Association of University Teachers has told students that it is the lecturers, not the union, behind the marking boycott that is threatening to delay graduations.
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Learning council staff stage 24-hour strike
Thousands of Learning and Skills Council staff are striking over claims a manager was sacked for failing an IQ test, with many others facing the same fate.
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Schoolboy admits killing 11-year-old fellow pupil
A 14-year-old boy has admitted killing 11-year-old Joe Geeling, whose body was found in a park last month.
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Primary schools have 29,000 pupils in classes of over 30
Government accused of failing to meet pledge to reduce primary school class sizes.
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Disastrous results
Is there such a thing as an “innocent” natural disaster, asks Tim Radford.
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Drop in applications to English universities
School leavers and mature students are shunning English universities, according to official figures that reveal fewer students have applied to university compared to last year.
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Study warns of dangers of scrapping RAE
Plans by the chancellor to abolish the research assessment exercise would cost more and lead to increasing separation between teaching and research, study warns.
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Gavyn Davies: Academy schools - the winners and losers
Day of the dad: blogging
Fathers are becoming bloggers and, Tom Leonard discovers, there is no limit to their gooeyness.
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Day of the dad: blogging
Fathers are becoming bloggers and, Tom Leonard discovers, there is no limit to their gooeyness.
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