| Teaching News and Events (8/6/13) Posted: 08 Jun 2013 02:00 AM PDT  Here are links to some of this week’s education news: Schools: - Former armed forces personnel without degrees will be fast-tracked into teaching in England under a new government programme.
- Bright 15-year-olds from the poorest homes are lagging more than two years behind their richer peers, a study suggests.
- A child’s genetic make-up has only a small role in determining how good they are at reading, a study suggests.
- Thousands of schools will be forced to close after teaching unions agreed to press ahead with a wave of strikes as part of a row with the Government over reforms to pay and pensions.
- The new phonics tests for six-year-olds in England is successfully identifying children who struggle to read, but is no more informative than existing teacher assessment, research suggests.
- Labour has tabled an amendment to the children and families bill which could make issues such as equality, abuse and same-sex relationships a compulsory part of the curriculum.
- A new way of using tablet computers in schools could change how children are taught in Wales, says Education Minister Leighton Andrews. It follows a project using the computers developed at Casllwchwr Primary in Swansea.
- One of the Government's flagship free schools is to ban homework to give pupils more time at home with their families.
- Plans to allow nurseries and childminders in England to look after more children are being dropped, Nick Clegg has said.
- School leaders are almost seven times more likely to be physically assaulted at work than members of the population at large, new research has revealed.
- Schoolchildren are turning to television programmes for careers guidance because large numbers of schools are failing to provide decent advice, according to research.
- Malorie Blackman, the bestselling author of the Noughts & Crosses teenage series, has been crowned the Children's Laureate for 2013-2015.
- A pilot scheme offering free breakfasts to primary school children in Blackpool has improved their health and punctuality, say researchers.
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