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An auto corrected text message, accidentally sent to the wrong number, was the catalyst to lockdowns Wednesday at West Hall middle and high schools. Just before noon, law enforcement and school officials issued the lockdowns after a West Hall community member reported a threatening text message. The text, saying “gunman be at west hall today,” […]

A Norfolk maths teacher has been the subject of a furore on social networking site Twitter after he told a student to “just enjoy being 17” instead of being stressed about grades. Teacher Jonny Griffiths, a regular contributor to the Times Education Supplement (TES), recounted in the supplement a conversation he had with a student […]

More than 100 secondary schools in England face being closed and re-opened as academies for failing government targets, official data reveals. League tables of more than 3,300 secondaries published by the Department for Education on Thursday show that 107 schools are failing to reach minimum standards required by the coalition. In all schools, at least […]

Britons ‘more dishonest than 10 years ago’, study finds Only one in three people were prepared to condemn lying in their own interests Britons are less honest than they were a decade ago, research by academics at the University of Essex suggests. The survey of more than 2,000 adults found that people were apparently more […]

British children are growing up in an “destructive” society obsessed with the celebrity way of life and need to be taught to live within their means, an education minister has warned. via telegraph.co.uk In an attack on contemporary values, Nick Gibb argued that a “got to have it now” culture was breeding unrealistic expectations of […]

The “bleak” financial situation faced by the younger generation was laid bare today, as official figures showed that more people aged 25 to 34 are turning to a type of insolvency known as a debt relief order (DRO) than any other age group. One in four people who have taken out DROs in England and […]