| Teaching News and Events (9/11/13) Posted: 09 Nov 2013 02:00 AM PST  Here are links to some of this week’s education news stories: - Two-year-olds from disadvantaged families should be enrolled in school nurseries to improve their chances, the chairwoman of Ofsted has suggested.
- Education standards are being undermined by the "pervasive resentment" of authority shown by large numbers of teachers, according to the head of Ofsted.
- Rising numbers of teachers are barring less intelligent pupils from taking GCSEs in history amid fears they will damage the school's league table ranking, according to research.
- The culture of coaching pupils for 11-plus exams must be ended so poor bright children are not excluded from grammar schools, an educational charity says.
- Schools’ failure to train the next generation of headteachers will have “catastrophic consequences” for the education system, Michael Wilshaw, the chief inspector of schools, has warned.
- Ofsted should be given powers to inspect organisations that run chains of academies, says a report from a cross-party committee of MPs.
- Ministers are making struggling schools become academies even when the costs are disproportionate to the benefits, a leaked government document suggests.
- Individual secondary schools in England will be able to take influential international tests to see how they compare with the highest performing schools in Asia and Europe.
- Lack of detail in the government’s figures for its teacher training plans for next year may hide possible teacher shortages, claims a university expert.
- The DfE has announced that the sponsored academies programme has been a huge success in transforming the fortunes of the weakest, most challenging schools.
- The proportion of trainee teachers with top degrees rose to an unprecedented level in 2011-12, according to the latest official figures.
- Hundreds of thousands of children in challenging schools will receive extra help from specially trained teachers.
- Many parents fear music videos have become too sexualised and violent, the founder of a parenting website has said.
- An early indication of autism can be identified in babies under six months old, a study suggests.
- Nicotine patches are being given to 12-year-olds by a local council to help them quit smoking.
- Learning a musical instrument as a child gives the brain a boost that lasts long into adult life, say scientists.
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