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Down with answers (by Myra Zepf, January/February 2012 ): Myra Zepf has a novel New Year's resolution for parents
What are they teaching my kids? (by Rob Deering, November/December 2011 ): Rob Deering is unimpressed by his local primary school's reliance on lazy, default Christianity
Different angle (by Andrew West, July/August 2011 ): Andrew West's photos of the Mustard Seed Secular School, Uganda
Trouble at Grayling Hall (by Sally Feldman, July/August 2011 ): Its difficult not to see the New College of the Humanities as misguided and anti-humanist, says Sally Feldman
Editorial: School for scandal (by Caspar Melville, July/August 2011 ): Education is a fundamental concern for humanists – so it's no surprise that AC Grayling's New College is dividing opinion
Free to teach creationism? (by James Gray, March/April 2011 ): Under the government's education reforms, 15 per cent of groups applying to open academies are religious. How would those schools handle evolution? James Gray investigates
Editorial: Creating confusion (by Caspar Melville, March/April 2011 ): Far from being an atheist straw man, Biblical fundamentalism poses a real threat to British schools
Is it time for atheist schools? (by Francis Beckett, November/December 2010 ): Francis Beckett outlines his proposal for Britain's first avowedly humanist state school
Don't fall into the faith school trap (by Rabbi Jonathan Romain, November/December 2010 ): Responding to Francis Beckett's proposal for a humanist school, Rabbi Jonathan Romain of the Accord Coalition warns of the risks of endorsing religious segregation in education
Faith in schools? (by Jim Mulligan, November/December 2010 ): Thanks largely to immigration, religious belief is making a comeback in our schools. Should we be concerned? Jim Mulligan visits Ed Miliband’s old school to find out.
Editorial: oh we of little faith (by Caspar Melville, November/December 2010 ): Are faith and religion necessarily intertwined?
Bless this tiger (by Paul Sims, September/October 2009 ): Paul Sims visits a zoo with a difference
The art of uncertainty (by Danny Postel, September/October 2009 ): Last issue’s article about how to raise children as humanists received hundreds of responses. Here its author, Danny Postel, chooses his favourites
The art of certainty (by Roger Scruton, September/October 2009 ): We need to teach children faith first before they can learn to doubt, says Roger Scruton, in his response to Danny Postel
Good books? (by Danny Postel, July/August 2009 ): What can humanist parents use in the battle against religious indoctrination? Danny Postel investigates
Time for Accord (by Rabbi Jonathan Romain, November/December 2008 ): Rabbi Jonathan Romain introduces a new front in the fight against faith schools
Schools for scoundrels (by Francis Beckett, March/April 2007 ): Religious groups are rushing to take advantage of the Blair government's new education policy, reports Francis Beckett. And guess who's paying for it?
Raise the roof (by Moses Kamya, March/April 2007 ): Moses Kamya thanks New Humanist readers for their generous donations following the construction of a new classroom block at the Mustard Seed school, Uganda
Kids united (by Gary Kent, November/December 2006 ): Northern Ireland's integrated education movement holds lessons for the faith school debate, says Gary Kent
Bertrand Russell in Busota (by Caspar Melville, November/December 2006 ): Caspar Melville introduces our appeal to help secular education in Uganda
Goodbye to all that (by Michael Bywater, July/August 2006 ): Michael Bywater misses his ivory tower
Losing Faith (by Andrew Copson, March/April 2006 ): Andrew Copson finds danger in Blair's education reforms
Anarchy in the classroom (by Judith Suissa, September/October 2005 ): Too often associated with chaos and disorder, anarchism is actually an ideology rooted in a radical theory of education, says Judith Suissa
Not the Natural History Museum: a trip to the Genesis Expo (by Padraig Reidy, May/June 2005 ): Padraig Reidy misses a few links in Portsmouth Harbour
Class Action (by Marilyn Mason, September/October 2004 ): Marilyn Mason applauds the inclusion of humanism in the new Religious Education
Why I'm glad my daughter had under-age sex (by Sally Feldman, July/August 2004 ): Amid the clamours for censorship, celibacy and an end to teenagers' rights to confidentiality, Sally Feldman fulminates against the misguided moral crusaders
Plus Ca Change (by Editorial Staff, Winter 2002 ): An occasional column dedicated to items from the past that ring a familiar note in the present
Schools for a multicultural society (by Marilyn Mason, Summer 2002 ): Marilyn Mason, education officer of the British Humanist Association, argues that humanists can make common cause with religious groups that suffer discrimination in schools.
Stifled Steps: Islam and Education (by Azam Kamguian, Spring 2002 ): Azam Kamguian argues that progressive education is secular education and that Islamic education is predicated on sexual apartheid.
Faith or Farce (by Keith Porteous Wood, Spring 2002 ): Keith Porteous Wood, executive director of the National Secular Society, watched from the sidelines as the House of Commons debated the future of faith schools.
Natural Born Philosophers (by Stephen Law, Summer 2001 ): Children are natural born philosophers argues Stephen Law
Film review: The Class (by Fred Rowson, Web Exclusive, March 2009): This acclaimed story of a year in a Paris classroom captures school life brilliantly, says Fred Rowson
Bless this tiger (by Paul Sims, Web Exclusive, August 2009): Paul Sims visits a zoo with a difference
For uselessness! (by Nina Power, Web Exclusive, June 2010): In the UK the axe is falling on philosophy departments. Nina Power reports from the frontline