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Philosophy for children is taking off in schools. But what can it offer pupils, particularly those in primaries?

The Government is fed up with retired teachers living it up at taxpayers’ expense. If only that were true, says Liz Lightfoot, who finds the reality at odds with popular fiction

Of the thousands of children excluded for violence and disruption every year, some are as young as four. Liz Lightfoot reports on the `nurture’ groups whose efforts to keep these infants in mainstream education can be astonishingly successful

Ruth Miskin, pioneering education hero or entrepreneur with undue influence over Government thinking?