| Teaching News and Events (2/3/13) Posted: 02 Mar 2013 02:00 AM PST  Here are links to some of this week’s education-related news: Schools: - Poor children are increasingly changing schools mid-year and putting their education at risk, suggests a study.
- Teachers' pay should be linked to pupils' exam grades because test scores are the most effective way of judging staff performance, research suggests.
- Some of the UK’s leading historians have endorsed Education Secretary Michael Gove’s new history curriculum for schools in England. But the Historical Association said the curriculum changes were “unworkable”.
- Ofsted is to publish a one-page public overview for every primary and secondary in England amid concerns that governors need more information to hold their schools to account.
- Pupils perform better in tests if they are told the exercise is to help them learn rather than to rank them against their classmates, according to a new study.
- School governors need to offer more professional leadership, and some of them should be paid for their work, the Ofsted chief inspector has said.
- The number of English schoolchildren labelled as having special needs is five times higher than the rest of Europe because of chronic over-diagnosis by teachers, according to research.
- An elite group of schools – including many of the Government's flagship academies and state grammars – have been flooded with more than 1,000 applications each for this September, figures have shown.
- The Department for Education has been warned it could face hundreds of unfair dismissal claims if it pushes ahead with plans in England to axe about 1,000 jobs and cut its costs by 50%.
- Children’s charities are warning that more young people are self-harming and that younger children are being affected.
- Hundreds of millions of pounds is being spent ferrying children to school by taxi every year amid continuing concerns over pupils' access to top quality education.
- Teachers work more overtime than any other public sector workers, equating to £7 billion of free labour for schools a year, according to an analysis of official statistics carried out by the Trades Union Congress.
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