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New research reveals that there are more girls than boys at the highest ability levels(19/12/2011)
It is often argued that although girls now generally outshine boys at school, there are more males than females at the very top of the ability range. Recently a new research from the Institute of Education, University of London, suggests that boys may have lost their lead here too – at least in the infant school. A study of almost 8,400 five-year-olds in England shows that the top 10 per cent of girls achieved higher scores than their male equivalents in a wide range of tests and teacher as... [more]
Music education in the infant school -- research highlights huge inequalities(26/10/2011)
In the past it seemed that every primary school had one or two teachers who could bash out an assembly hymn on an old upright piano. Today there are no such certainties. Some primaries have several music specialists and many instruments. Others do not have a single musician on the staff and some no longer have even a slightly out-of-tune piano. The huge gulf between music education’s ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots’ – even within the state sector -- has been highlighted by a new report from the Ins... [more]
Girls are much more likely than boys to be overweight at age 7(04/01/2011)
Researchers at the Institute of Education, University of London, who have been monitoring the weights of more than 11,000 children born between 2000 and 2002, have calculated that girls are almost 50 per cent more likely than boys to be too heavy at age 7. About one in four girls (23%) was overweight at this age, compared with just over one in six boys (18%). The researchers also found that seven-year-olds with no brothers or sisters are about 25 per cent more likely to be overweight than you... [more]
Parents' social class has a bigger influence on children's progress between 5 and 7 than many parenting practices(21/12/2010)
Researchers who analysed the assessment scores of more than 11,000 seven-year-olds found a strikingly large performance gap between the children of parents in professional and managerial jobs and those with parents who were long-term unemployed. Children’s different rates of progress in their first two years at school are still largely driven by their parents’ social class, a UK-wide study has concluded. Even after allowing for other factors such as ethnicity and family size, the children of ... [more]
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