8 h. ago Why where you live can affect your school grades – and the gap between areas is only widening

Educational inequalities in England have ‘grown wider and more pronounced’ since the Covid pandemic

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9 h. ago Mum grins as son who killed dad for taking away phone aged 15 AVOIDS prison

Lincoln Peterson killed his dad after his parents decided to take his electronics as a punishment for his school grades - his mum smiled in court as he was spared jail

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22 h. ago Transgender teacher from Florida buys 'souvenir plot' of land in Scotland in bid to be called Lord instead of Miss

Toby Tobin, 30, who teaches maths and science to fifth graders, claims to have been forced to resign after school authorities insisted a female title and pronouns were used.

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26 h. ago The Online Safety Act is good start, but it’s time to get serious with digital literacy

Much of what happens in young people’s online lives is already invisible to the adults who care for them; regulation without education risks widening that gap

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4 d. ago UK state school in deprived borough outshines Eton on A level results day

Over 250 students at the school in East London achieved straight A grades

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5 d. ago Night Always Comes review – Vanessa Kirby gets lost in poverty thriller

A woman is forced to take extreme measures to save her family home in an initially stressful yet ultimately meandering Netflix dramaThere’s been a recent overkill of stories told about the super-rich, glossy films and shows set in ostentatious houses filled with characters as superficially on trend as they are painfully out of touch. It felt like needed escapism as we crawled out of the very worst of the pandemic, with The White Lotus, Triangle of Sadness, The Menu and Glass Onion all hitting a sweet spot, but it’s grown rather tiring, as Sirens, The Better Sister and Your Friends and Neighbors have felt less eat the rich and more what if we just admired their kitchens instead.It’s become especially uninteresting as the gap between the uber-wealthy and the rest of us has widened, food prices up and empathy down. That particular anger pulses through Night Always Comes, a well-intentioned yet often inert Netflix drama based on the 2021 novel by Willy Vlautin. It’s told over one awful ...

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