Author: Parents and Teachers for Excellence
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The PTE Newletter – Tuesday 9 March
Before diving into today’s roundup, we wanted to say congratulations and thank you to everyone involved in getting pupils back to school this week. The past year has been tough on…
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The solutions to the challenges we face already exist within our schools.
The past year has been tough on everyone. We all faced unprecedented challenges, and we’ve all had to go about dealing with them in our own way. Every person, family,…
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The PTE Newsletter – Friday 5 March
It’s nearly the weekend, and we’re delighted to send you the first of our new-look PTE emails. We’re making a few changes so that they’re even more useful to readers.…
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Founding Trustee Dame Rachel de Souza Stands Down
PTE founding trustee Dame Rachel de Souza is standing down from the board as she prepares to take on her new role as Children’s Commissioner for England. We would like…
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Intellectual Virtue and Education
For the most part the philosophy of education has given way to the cognitive sciences as a force for educational change. Even an increased focus on knowledge has done little…
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Great Education Thinkers : Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) was a poet, a literary critic and for thirty-five years an inspector of schools. His influence on educators is encapsulated by a famous passage in Culture and…
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Great Education Thinkers: John Dewey
“The native and unspoiled attitude of childhood, marked by ardent curiosity, fertile imagination, and love of experimental inquiry, is near, very near, to the attitude of the scientific mind” –…
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Another look at critical thinking.
Rethinking critical thinking. One common accusation levelled at those who promote a knowledge rich curriculum is that there is an insufficient focus on allowing students the space to think…
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Great Education Thinkers: Michael Oakeshott
Over the coming weeks we will be examining the foundational ideas of great education thinkers. We hope to stimulate thought about questions in education that we often take for granted.…
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