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There’s more to getting families involved than parents’ evening and PTAs. Today, schools see them as an important resource for improving pupils’ achievement, writes Judith Judd

Closed communities become stale at best, prejudiced against outsiders at worst. Judith Judd visits a school that moved mountains so that their pupils could climb them

Heads of high-profile independent schools are being lured into the state sector, seduced by six-figure salaries and new freedoms afforded to academies. But does moving in either direction really work? Judith Judd examines the barriers to be overcome

This head is so successful that he was asked to advise others on the secret of his success. Now his high-flying specialist school has been placed on the Government’s hit list

While schools are signing up enthusiastically to the green agenda, fewer than 100 can actually call themselves models of sustainable education

A new BTEC qualification scores points with pupils and maths teachers. Judith Judd checks out the multiple advantages, including the chance to improve standards