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  • Woman drawing on papers with children.

    Childminder costs over school summer holidays as high as £1,800, research finds

    Coram survey in Great Britain finds 4% rise in holiday childcare club costs and shortage of places, especially for children with Send
  • Protester with a banner reading 'China, stop killing Uyghurs'

    Oxford University Press to stop publishing China-sponsored science journal

  • Rich Lyons, chancellor, University of California, Berkeley, testifies during the House hearing.

    US university leaders challenge campus antisemitism claims in House hearing

  • Child holding bag at school

    Pupils in England to be taught law behind sex and gender identity, new guidance says

  • Courtney Wright wearing a union flag dress and hat, standing with her father Stuart Field

    Girl in union flag dress barred from giving speech on school’s ‘culture day’

  • Children in a classroom

    Five-year-olds in England with special educational needs 20 months behind peers – report

  • A young woman wearing headphones passes a bus shelter advert for the Netflix drama Adolescence

    Secondary schools in England to tackle ‘incel’ culture and teach positive role models

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In depth

  • Andrew O'Neill standing outside All Saints Catholic College

    ‘High aspirations’: the school that embodies Labour’s hopes for special needs

  • Black text on yellow background, reading: * If you are able to read these words, you might have been part of a failed English teaching initiative.

    The radical 1960s schools experiment that created a whole new alphabet – and left thousands of children unable to spell

  • Brian Sandberg speaking to the media

    ‘The American system is being destroyed’: academics on leaving US for ‘scientific asylum’ in France

  • The 2 Mr.P’s<br>For Guardian G2 Paula Cocozza interview. Pictured are brothers Adam(left) and Lee Parkinson in Manchester who are both teachers and have a podcast called The 2 Mr.P’s. They are pictured in St.Paul’s Primary school in Salford, Manchester where Adam works. Photo by Fabio De Paola

    The two Mr Ps on life in the classroom: ‘I’ve worked with teachers who have been hit or kicked’

Opinion

  • Nursery teacher sitting with a parent and her son who has Down's syndrome in the classroom.

    The Guardian view on special needs reform: children’s needs must be the priority as the system is redesigned

  • Robert Reich

    The Trump administration pushed out a university president – its latest bid to close the American mind

    Robert Reich
  • Bridget Phillipson

    This new Sure Start plan for children is a moral mission: a watershed moment for our government

    Bridget Phillipson
  • John Harris

    After disability benefits, is Labour really about to target the educational rights of special needs children?

    John Harris

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