How Early Academic Training Retards Intellectual Development Academic skills are best learned when a person wants them and needs them. Post published by Peter Gray on Jun

The SEN Green Paper: implications for children and families

Petition against school league tables for five year olds - update Pressure from the parent-initiated petition against school league tables at the end of the Early Years Foundation Stage

JANUARY 2011 CAMPAIGN MATTERS    It was an interesting end to the early-childhood year and we have been thinking carefully about the way in which we now want to move

The Child The True Foundation Conference The DVD from the recent OpenEYE conference is now available and can be purchased for £19 inc p&p. It contains three fascinating and

Peter Moss Professor of Early Childhood Provision Thomas Coram Research Unit 27-28 Woburn Square London WC1H 0AA peter.moss@ioe.ac.uk I would like to tell you about three new publications on early childhood education and

The OpenEYE 2010 Conference. The 2010 OpenEYE conference is bringing together some really inspiring speakers, all of whom are concerned about policy-making in the early years. Professor Kathy Hirsh-Pasek - Stanley and

OpenEYE: Restating a core concern We wish to highlight once more one of OpenEYE's core concerns, which we now have even more grounds for believing has major unintended negative

  OpenEYE consists of a unique and growing multi-disciplinary team of experts who have come together through a shared concern about Early Childhood in the UK. They have the

Analysis: Government signals end to target culture. Nursery World, 9 July 2009. http://tiny.cc/r9Yxc   Are the targets and measurements that the Government appears to be dropping going to be

OpenEYE consists of a unique and growing multi-disciplinary team of experts who have come together through a shared concern about Early Childhood in the UK. They have the

OpenEYE consists of a unique and growing multi-disciplinary team of experts who have come together through a shared concern about Early Childhood in the UK. They have the

Supporting innovation in schools The new handbook, ‘Promoting Transformative Innovation in Schools’, is designed to prompt debate around the nature and purpose of innovation in schools. It aims to

Supporting innovation in schools The new handbook, ‘Promoting Transformative Innovation in Schools’, is designed to prompt debate around the nature and purpose of innovation in schools. It aims to

Edutopia's news for 23rd April included a couple of interesting stories (1) Childhood's End: Growing Up too Fast -  a touching elaboration of how our uniform schooling cruelly