Some of the most important influences on whether a student is learning have to do with their peers. The proverbial 'good class' really is good for individual kids within the class.

We all have our eye on the prize of not just the top 10, but someday being considered among the top five.

After three decades as an educationist, first as a teacher of children with learning difficulties, then as an educational psychologist and, latterly, as an academic who has reviewed the dyslexia literature, I have little confidence in my (or others') ability to offer a diagnosis of dyslexia,

You never know how important something is, until it's gone.

My daddy had been a fiddler, and I heard a lot of fiddle music as a child. I had a ukulele and had played along with him.

In all likelihood, this is the team we're going to meet in the first round, and it felt like a playoff atmosphere.