While other five-year-olds are learning to spell their names and tie up shoelaces, infants at one school are debating life's great mysteries - in philosophy lessons. Staff say that instead of ...

America may be great at many things, but education isn't one of them. It's here that standardized testing creeps behind students like a shadow and where fun experiments take a back seat to rote ...

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Stephen Gorard receives funding from the Education Endowment Foundation, including for the research in this article. He also receives funding from the Nuffield Foundation, the National Literacy Trust, ...

Some of the best business advice is more than 2,000 years old. Many entrepreneurs embrace the teachings of Greek philosophy to help shape and guide their life and careers. Stoicism was founded in the ...

Thinking about big questions empowers children to feel more confident about the value of their own ideas, teachers say. By Richard Schiffman “We don’t really need ‘going to school,’” Ella Wagar, a ...

Philosophy lessons have a London primary school record the top SATs test scores in England for the second year in a row, the school's headmistress claimed today. Primary league tables 2012: "Engaging ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

JEDDAH: Preparations are under way for the introduction of classes in critical thinking and philosophy in Saudi schools, education minister Hamad Al-Asheikh said. Saudi educators and students welcomed ...

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