From sixth form to university: motivation and transition among high achieving state-school language students by Macaro, E, Wingate, U

A disorder of anger and aggression: Children’s perspectives on attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder in the UK by Singh, I

“…Drawing on interviews with over 150 children, the analysis examines the influence of a UK state school-based culture of aggression on the form and intensity of diagnosed children’s difficulties with behavioral self-control. …”

’It’s all about coping with the new specifications’: Coping professional development – the new CPD by Molway, L

“…Data tracking the PL priorities and experiences of 54 teachers clustered in 14 state school languages departments were collected via four iterations of an online questionnaire. …”

Eating disorder examination questionnaire: norms for young adolescent girls. by Carter, J, Stewart, D, Fairburn, C

“…The standardization sample was comprised of 808 girls aged between 12 and 14 years from three single-sex schools (one private and two state schools). Means, standard deviations and percentile ranks for raw EDE-Q subscale scores are presented. …”

Teaching about Christianity: a configurative review of research in English schools by Fancourt, N

“…This article presents a systematic review of empirical research on teaching about Christianity in state schools in England between 1993 and 2013. First, I explain the background to this religion’s current place within English religious education. …”

Teaching about Christianity: a configurative review of research in English schools by Fancourt, N

“…This article presents a systematic review of empirical research on teaching about Christianity in state schools in England between 1993 and 2013. First, I explain the background to this religion’s current place within English religious education. …”

Literacy and ancient Egyptian society by John Baines

“…Very few people were literate, all of them officials of state; schooling was limited. The main script types, hieroglyphic, hieratic and demotic, have different, complementary functions. the entire system survived into late Roman times alongside the more widespread Greek. …”

Managerial and political accountability : the widening gap in the organization of welfare by Mattei, P

“…In contrast to the claims that managerial accountability is a technical and neutral exercise in the application of politics-free criteria, and, as such, it more readily fits the complexity of the 21st-century welfare state, this article suggests that the new organizational arrangements of state schools and hospitals indicate that traditional forms of accountability to elected officials have not withered. …”

Argumentation in science and religion: match and/or mismatch when applied in teaching and learning? by Erduran, S

“…Thirty teachers from 15 schools, including a range of faith/maintained, religiously plural/religiously uniform[LlV1], as well as secular state schools are participating in the project. Overall the project highlights the need for teachers’ professional development to deal with complex argumentation that concern both science and religious education content.…”

Deep learning questions can help selection of high ability candidates for universities by Mellanby, J, Cortina-Borja, M, Stein, J

“…Furthermore high scores on one open-ended commentary question, demanding arguments in favour of a case, produced a greater than 70% chance of obtaining a first class degree at the end of their course irrespective of the candidates' type of school attended or GCSE scores. Candidates from State schools scored as well as those from Independent schools in both tests. …”

Children with language impairment: prevalence, associated difficulties and ethnic disproportionality in an English population by Lindsay, G, Strand, S

“…This study uses national data from the UK government’s annual census of all students aged 5-16 years attending state schools in England at four time periods between 2005-11, over 6 million students at each census. …”

The cost-effectiveness of radon-induced lung cancer prevention in schools by Kennedy, C, Gray, A

“…It follows the guidelines for the methodological framework now considered appropriate in the economic evaluation of health interventions and employs best available national UK data and information from Northamptonshire on the costs and effectiveness of radon identification and remediation in schools, and the costs and health impact of lung cancer cases for all state schools in Northamptonshire between 1993 and 1997 (348 schools, including 170 adult staff and 1820 pupils). …”

Continuing complexity: the university careers of a scientific elite in relation to their class origins and schooling by Bukodi, E, Goldthorpe, JH, Steinberg, I

“…But the most common route turns out in fact to be via state schooling and attendance at universities outside of ‘the golden triangle’ of Cambridge, Oxford and London; and this route is far more likely to have been followed by Fellows of all other class origins than higher professional. …”

Effects of a programme of vigorous physical activity during secondary school physical education on academic performance, fitness, cognition, mental health and the brain of adolesce... by Wassenaar, T, Wheatley, C, Beale, N, Salvan, P, Meaney, A, Possee, J, Atherton, K, Duda, J, Dawes, H, Johansen-Berg, H

“…</p> <p><strong>METHOD:</strong> The Fit to Study project is a cluster-randomised controlled trial that includes Year 8 pupils (aged 12-13) from secondary state schools in South/Mid-England. Schools were randomised into an intervention condition in which PE teachers delivered an additional 10 min of VPA per PE lesson for one academic year, or a 'PE as usual' control condition. …”

The effect of a one-year vigorous physical activity intervention on fitness, cognitive performance and mental health in young adolescents: the Fit to Study cluster randomised contr... by Wassenaar, TM, Wheatley, CM, Beale, N, Nichols, T, Salvan, P, Meaney, A, Atherton, K, Diaz-Ordaz, K, Dawes, H, Johansen-Berg, H

“…<br> <strong>Methods</strong> The Fit to Study cluster randomised controlled trial included Year 8 pupils (n = 18,261, aged 12–13) from 104 secondary state schools in South/Mid-England. Schools were randomised into an intervention condition (n = 52), in which PE teachers delivered an additional 10 min of VPA per PE lesson for one academic year (2017–2018), or into a “PE as usual” control condition. …”