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• ‘Some parents said they’d break my knees’: the teacher who exposed Putin’s primary school propaganda March 2, 2026
  Grenade-throwing contests replaced PE and ‘denazification’ speeches became homework. Pavel Talankin’s undercover film about his school’s indoctrination drive won a Bafta and is tipped for an Oscar, but has left him in exileIn order to watch the Oscar-nominated documentary in which many of them have starring roles, pupils at Karabash School No 1 have had […]
  Amelia Gentleman
• ICE has detained this high schooler for 10 months. Here’s what he and his classmates want you to know March 1, 2026
  Dylan Lopez Contreras, a senior at Ellis Prep academy, was taken by ICE in May. The Guardian invited him and five of his classmates to share their lives and dreams The students at Ellis Prep academy – like most high schoolers – have a lot on their mind right now.Essay deadlines, college applications, younger siblings […]
  Maanvi Singh, with words and photography by Ellis Prep academy students
• UK teachers and parents urged to talk to children about Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes March 1, 2026
  Experts say trusted adults must be brave and discuss issue or risk children looking for answers from unsafe sourcesTeachers and parents in the UK need to be brave and discuss Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes with children and young people or risk them looking for answers from dubious or dangerous sources, according to experts who will host […]
  Richard Adams Education editor
• It’s been decreed: something must be done about student loans in England February 28, 2026
  The education secretary wants a fairer system and the Tories have leapt in with their own plan – but why now?For anyone who attended university in England in the last 15 or so years, the idea of student loans feeling like some sort of debt trap is hardly news. But three weeks ago, when the […]
  Peter Walker Senior political correspondent
• The National Year of Reading celebrates the ‘joy’ of books. But let’s not forget they can also be deeply troubling, too | Charlotte Higgins February 28, 2026
  Encounters with great art can be absorbing, unsettling and even painful. How has this been tamed into mere ‘reading for pleasure’?It is the UK’s National Year of Reading. Specifically, this government-led scheme is about “reading for pleasure” and “the joy of reading”. This is not a matter of whimsy. Research has linked reading for pleasure […]
  Charlotte Higgins
• Appeal court rejects latest challenge to adding VAT to UK private school fees February 27, 2026
  Parents opposing plans told they can home school their children if they object to sending them to state schoolsThe court of appeal has rejected the latest challenge to the addition of VAT to private school fees, telling parents they have the option to home school their children if they object to sending them to state […]
  Richard Adams Education editor
• TikTok and Snapchat posts urge London pupils to join ‘school wars’ fights February 26, 2026
  Met urges pupils not to get involved and asks platforms to ban accounts promoting ‘fights’ with images of weapons Pupils aged 11 to 16 are being encouraged to join in school fights in posts circulating on TikTok and Snapchat, prompting police to urge children not to get involved.The Metropolitan police have asked social media platforms […]
  Matthew Weaver
• ‘Very Republican, very patriotic’: right-leaning civic centers now offer courses at US public colleges February 26, 2026
  Republican lawmakers push for conservative professors to counter purported leftwing indoctrination in schoolsThis story was produced by the Hechinger Report, a non-profit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.One glossy insert stuck out from the orientation packet handed to hundreds of Ohio State University freshmen last August. It advertised a tempting offer: […]
  Meredith Kolodner and Sarah Butrymowicz