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  • Suffer Little Children

    With a new creationist academy opening this month, and the prospect of dozens more Church schools on the way, Marilyn Mason advises on how to mount effective opposition.

  • You're in Denial

    Michael Rosen on saying ‘No’

  • Bringing Up Baby

    Jan Fortune-Wood gleans nothing useful from a revolutionary child-rearing manual

  • Hail Mary!

    Sally Feldman on making your children worship you

  • Relatively Speaking

    Michael Rosen wonders where the modern family ends

  • Plus Ca Change

    An occasional column dedicated to items from the past that ring a familiar note in the present

  • Faith or Farce

    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.

  • Schools for a multicultural society

    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

    Azam Kamguian argues that progressive education is secular education and that Islamic education is predicated on sexual apartheid.

  • Learning in a refugee camp

    Marnie Smith visits a school on the Pakistan and Afghanistan that is feeding the hunger for learning.