Why teachers are so angry: Botched education reforms, increased workload, meddling ministers…you name it!

Even the ATL, the most moderate teaching union, has been on strike twice during the lifetime of this government. Its leader, Mary Bousted, tells Richard Garner what action is needed to defuse the discontent http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/schools/why-teachers-are-so-angry-botched-education-reforms-increased-workload-meddling-ministersyou-name-it-10134089.html

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The world’s best teacher lives in rural Maine and doesn’t care about test scores

Nancie Atwell opened the Center for Teaching and Learning 25 years ago to make the classroom a place for ‘wisdom and happiness’. Last month her emphasis on student choice and self-expression earned her the Global Teaching Prize, dubbed the Nobel Prize of teaching http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/mar/23/worlds-best-teacher-nancie-atwell-maine-center-for-teaching-and-learning

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