The First Teachers
The most important educator in most children's lives is their parents, and the first five years is deemed to be critical. Sarah Montague mee...
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The Educators
Sarah Montague interviews the people whose ideas are challenging the future of education.
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Listen to The Educators, a Education podcast by BBC. Stream 13 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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13 episodesThe World's Best Teachers
Studies have shown that the most important thing in a child's education is the quality of their teacher. A child at a bad school with a good...
Turning Schools Around
Schools in England have been warned that if they coast, rather than improve, they risk being closed down. Sarah Montague meets the new head...
What Finland Did Next
Since the first international comparisons in 2000, Finland has been at or near the top of league tables for the abilities of its teenagers i...
Character Lessons
The KIPP school movement began 20 years ago in the US. It stands for Knowledge Is Power Program, and the schools focus on two things; academ...
Salman Khan
Sal Khan worked as a hedge-fund analyst before he set up the Khan Academy, almost by accident, when his cousin in another city needed help w...
Jo Boaler
Is our attitude towards maths killing the subject for children? Professor Jo Boaler believes a widespread belief in the existence of a 'math...
Sugata Mitra
Professor Sugata Mitra, Professor of Educational Technology at Newcastle University, imagines a future where children teach themselves. Famo...
Paul Howard-Jones
Most parents will have witnessed the magnetic effect of computer games on children. The combination of skill, memory and risk, leading to an...
Daisy Christodoulou
It's a relatively new dilemma for teachers. If the answer to almost anything is available with a search, should children be taught to rememb...
Tony Little
Eton College in Berkshire is one of the world's most famous schools. With so many of its old boys having distinguished careers, an Eton educ...
John Hattie
What really works in schools and classrooms? How much difference can homework and class size make to a child's ability? Sarah Montague inter...
Sir Ken Robinson
A talk for the online lecture series TED in 2006 launched Sir Ken Robinson's ideas to a global audience. He spoke about creativity in school...
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