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Come back Mr Chips, all is forgiven
Teachers’ on-screen avatars have mutated from figures of saintly authority to sex-crazed party animals. Does either representation bear the slightest resemblance to the truth?
26 February 2010
My best teacher - Lemar
The `Fame Academy’ finalist remembers a `cuddly’ primary teacher who always saw good where others found negativity
26 February 2010
Curriculum - What makes a happy chappy
Twenty two British state schools are piloting a US-inspired positive psychology programme which is claimed to improve the social and emotional wellbeing of pupils. But should ‘the science of happiness’ have a place in the classroom? Meabh Ritchie reports
19 February 2010
Fact meets fiction
It is often assumed that pupils are the only victims of a school culture of bullying, but a new book looks at what happens when staffroom victimisation leads to a shocking outbreak of violence
12 February 2010
Bounced out of school
In New York, hundreds of teachers accused of misconduct or incompetence are sent to reassignment centres known as `rubber rooms’. There they await – sometimes for years – a hearing at which they can put their side of the story
5 February 2010
A crust above
Good breakfasts can be the key to getting pupils healthy, full of energy and ready to learn. Yet a quarter of children in the UK go to school hungry. Meabh Ritchie reports on how clubs are providing the most important meal of the day
22 January 2010
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