Teachers as 'guides': inside the UK's first Montessori secondary school

The Montessori Place has no year groups, no assessments, and students work in partnership with mentors to decide what to study

'No excuses!'

Inside Britain's strictest school

The class divide: how to teach boys and girls

As girls and boys prefer very different learning conditions how should classrooms be organised to get the best from both? Michele Hanson has some amusing suggestions

'They should have personal masseuses'

Three days in the classroom gave comedian Rhod Gilbert a new-found respect for teachers

My third-class life

Michael Morpurgo argues that it's a teacher's talent, not academic success, that is most important

The day my life changed

Personal account: A teacher talks about a classroom attack