10+ hour, 59+ min ago  (1240+ words) There are 1,100 chairs in the main public library in Oslo " rocking chairs, armchairs, chairs on balls which let you spin yourself around. Every one is full. When the Deichman Bjorvika library opened in 2020, staff quickly realised they needed teenagers" ideas…...

15+ hour, 6+ min ago  (1235+ words) Private schools have said they are keeping a close watch on the deepening oil crisis, amid fears that further increases in transport and food costs could force them to raise fees next term. The warning comes as a record seven…...

6+ hour, 50+ min ago  (919+ words) Shielding her unborn baby from the furious punches, kicks and bites of a five-year-old pupil, Anna, a reception teacher who was seven months pregnant, vowed to leave the profession. The teacher, at a mainstream primary school, had been separating a…...

7+ hour, 45+ min ago  (934+ words) Parents are paying up to "800 a day for live-in tutors over the Easter holidays as they seek last-minute help for their teenagers" GCSEs and A-levels. The two-week holiday, which begins this weekend for many children, provides crucial revision time before…...

5+ hour, 59+ min ago  (139+ words) Norway's literacy crisis is a warning to British parents'thetimes.com Norway's literacy crisis is a warning to British parents After a calamitous decline in reading, the Scandinavian country is ditching school iPads. Can Britain learn from this and save a…...

10+ hour, 50+ min ago  (12+ words) Is "gentle parenting" to blame for violence in primary schools?thetimes.com...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (973+ words) A deprived primary where hardly any school leavers could read or write adequately seven years earlier is now among the best in Scotland. Chapelside Primary, in Airdrie, has emerged as the highest performing school in The Sunday Times Primary School…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago  (730+ words) Children from almost half of Scotland's primary schools are to be trained in the knowhow that would help them read diagrams to build flat-pack furniture as adults. Studies found a new training programme in spatial reasoning, which involves picturing three-dimensional…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (586+ words) Most children aren't interested in books and forcing them won't help. Here's what will How to talk to your children about reading Most children aren't interested in books and forcing them won't help. Here's what will Challenge yourself with today's…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago  (540+ words) Before Dolly Parton became the Queen of Country, she lived in a small cabin in Tennessee with 11 siblings and just one book: the family Bible. Although her father, Robert Lee, was the "smartest man" she knew, he could not read…...