UK News 04-03-2005 who: Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted) what: Says gang culture is widespread in secondary schools when: This week snippet: The Times reports on a new Ofsted report, Managing Challenging Behaviour, which says a fifth of secondary schools are affected by "gang culture" and "girls are scratching, cutting or burning themselves in one in three primary and special schools and more than half of English secondary schools". In other education news, The Independent says a new government report has concluded that history exams "reward wrong answers and muddled thinking"; and The Sun says all classes are to be broken down into groups of five and taught separately according to their abilities in what deputy poilitical editor George Pascoe-Watson calls "an education shake-up". [... more]

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