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Teachers striking again over behaviour concerns Members of staff at Tewkesbury Academy could strike for nine more days.

What is SEND and why are councils struggling to pay for it? The government is due to publish plans to reform the special educational needs system in early 2026.

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Unveiling interaction patterns between students and generative AI teachable agent: Focusing on students' agency and... Abstract
With the growing integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in education, conversational AI agents are increasingly used to support student learning. This study examines how interactions with AI teachable agents are temporally associated with students' agency and how these associations relate ...

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Prior knowledge interacts with the effects of pre‐questions and feedback types on learning from videos:... Abstract
Instructional videos increasingly supplement formal education, yet the efficacy of design elements (e.g. pre-questions and feedback) remains underexplored, particularly regarding interactions with learners' prior knowledge. This study involving 352 Chinese university students employed a 2 (prior knowledge: low/high) × 4 (instructional intervention ...

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Number of home-schooled children attending 'social' learning sessions rises Deb Hadden runs drop-off sessions, where children can play and learn with each other.

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How these schools are improving behaviour and attendance The government says schools needing "intensive support" will receive "one-to-one sessions".

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'A hug, a quick kiss': How to reconnect after having children Relationships often change after children. Here are ways to help get your partnership back on track.

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£5bn council SEND debts to be paid off by government It comes days after the Local Government Association warned that eight in 10 English councils would face bankruptcy, if they had to honour deficits.

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From simplification to sophistication: Secondary students' conceptual change in understanding machine learning model decision making Abstract
As artificial intelligence (AI) reshapes the educational landscape, promoting AI literacy in secondary education has become increasingly important. Understanding how secondary students perceive AI, particularly the machine learning (ML) decision-making process, is critical for equipping them to navigate an AI-driven ...

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Development of the Coding Engagement Scale to measure elementary students’ engagement in coding Abstract
This paper presents the development and validation of the Coding Engagement Scale (CodES), a tool designed to measure elementary students' perceptions of their engagement when they participate in coding as a form of multimodal communication. The CodES assesses four distinct ...

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Ink and algorithm: Exploring temporal dynamics in generative AI‐assisted writing The advent of Generative AI (GAI) has transformed writing, marking a shift towards GAI-assisted writing in education. However, the dynamics of human–AI interaction in the writing process are not well-understood, and thus, it remains largely unknown how human learning can ...

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Attack 'ended my teaching career': The toll of rising pupil violence Former head teacher Michelle Stone was attacked by a student at a Hampshire special school.

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From rural margins to media trailblazers: India’s women journalists are rewriting the news Far from global newsrooms and editorial boardrooms, a radically different model of journalism has been taking shape for over two decades in rural India.

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T. Alan Hatton receives Bernard M. Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has announced T. Alan Hatton, MIT’s Ralph Landau Professor of Chemical Engineering Practice, Post-Tenure, as the recipient of the 2026 Bernard M. Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education, recognizing his transformative leadership ...

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Brian Hedden named co-associate dean of Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing Brian Hedden PhD ’12 has been appointed co-associate dean of the Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing (SERC) at MIT, a cross-cutting initiative in the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, effective Jan. 16.Hedden is a professor in the Department of ...

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Can workers compete with machines and stay relevant in the AI era? AI looks set to be transformative for us all, but it also brings a real risk of job losses and widening social and economic divides. UN experts are focusing on how to manage that transition, to ensure the benefits of ...

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The philosophical puzzle of rational artificial intelligence To what extent can an artificial system be rational?A new MIT course, 6.S044/24.S00 (AI and Rationality), doesn’t seek to answer this question. Instead, it challenges students to explore this and other philosophical problems through the lens of AI research. For ...

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‘We must stand up for our shared humanity - each and every day’: UN human... On the eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk called on the global community to “not only to look at our past, but to reflect on our present, and to safeguard our future.” ...

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Young people must be ‘truly involved’ in transforming education With young people under 30 making up more than half of the global population and over 272 million children and youth still out of school, their participation in shaping education is becoming increasingly vital.

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Research: Working lives of teachers and leaders: wave 3 Findings from the third wave of the working lives of teachers and leaders survey.