| Teaching News and Events (12/10/13) Posted: 12 Oct 2013 02:00 AM PDT  Here are links to some of this week’s education-related news: - Young adults in England have scored among the lowest results in the industrialised world in international literacy and numeracy tests.
- Children who fall behind at school before the age of seven are likely to stay behind, a charity has warned.
- Schools and the government have failed to focus effectively on religious education, Ofsted have said.
- Classroom support staff say they are increasingly being asked to stand in for fully qualified teachers, a union has claimed.
- Traditional boys' schools are increasingly admitting girls as a "calming" influence on their pupils and to boost their positions in league tables, according to a leading headmistress.
- Ofsted inspectors have strongly criticised standards of education and training in England’s prisons.
- Some pupils are not being given enough food at Powys primary schools causing them to snack and lose concentration in lessons, an assembly member has warned.
- The self-esteem of teenage girls could be improved by training teachers to deliver classes in body image, a UK study shows.
- Thousands of teenagers are being allowed to drop out of school or college because local councils are failing to properly enforce rules on post-16 education, ministers have suggested.
- The brain has a critical window for language development between the ages of two and four, brain scans suggest.
- In this Guardian article, teacher Kierna Corr explains how she uses social media to network with like-minded colleagues across the globe and boost her professional development.
- Water fountains could be banished from school play areas if a boy is allowed to keep thousands of pounds in damages he won after cutting himself when punching a drinks dispenser “in a rage”, the Court of Appeal heard.
- The Scout Association in the UK has announced an alternative version of its membership promise for young people who do not believe in God.
- The BBC’s director general, Tony Hall, has announced plans to “bring coding into every home, business and school in the UK”.
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