Grade boundaries to be set midway between pre-pandemic levels in 2019 and 2021’s record resultsPupils sitting GCSEs and A-levels next summer will receive fewer top grades than this year’s cohort, but will be given advance notice of some exam topics to …
School Reopenings Stymie Teens’ Reseller Gigs
It turns out school reopenings are disrupting the cash flow of industrious teenagers who spent the pandemic scooping up in-demand products via bots and reselling them for a hefty profit. From a report: “Yes, I am back in school. Yea, it’s very annoying…
How Do We Prepare Boys for Healthy Relationships?
“If we care about preparing our boys for healthy relationships, this may be one way to do it—making time and space in school, where so much of their social world exists, to teach them how to name and handle their emotions and solve problems that crop u…
Indian online learning platform Vedantu becomes unicorn with $100 million funding
Online learning platform Vedantu has raised $100 million in a new financing round and has become the latest Indian startup to become a unicorn following a year of strong growth. Vedantu, which last month refuted rumors of it considering a sale to Byju’s, said on Wednesday it has raised $100 million in its Series E […]
Employers are consumer edtech’s next beta test
Entrepreneurs need to convince employers to turn to edtech for a solution more elusive than even education: motivation.
The new era of education is high-tech and high-touch
As we return to school this fall, we can blend the best of technology with the best of the classroom experience.
Air pollution likely cause of up to 6m premature births, study finds
Global analysis of indoor and outdoor pollution also finds link to low birth weightAir pollution is likely to have been responsible for up to 6 million premature births and 3 million underweight babies worldwide every year, research shows. The analysis…
Children will pay the price for universal credit cut | Letters
The benefit reduction will affect child welfare services and only cost more later down the line, says Emily Aklan, while Sabine Goodwin says food banks will struggle to copeYour article (Universal credit cut will lead to more UK children in care – stud…
12% of English pupils report continuing Covid symptoms weeks after infection
Secondary school students and staff describe persistent problems that point to scale of long CovidCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageMore than one in 10 pupils and over a third of school staff with Covid continued to suffer sym…
When Dasani left home
Many of you may remember the story of Dasani, the homeless girl in rapidly gentrifying Fort Greene whose experiences were chronicled in a NYT article several years ago. This article follows up on her experiences since, as she attends a boarding school…