19 Aug 2014: Laura McInerney: The new education secretary will need more than motherhood and the ability to multitask in order to fulfil her early years responsibility
Weekly education round up: Parents and teachers might unwittingly stifle students' career aspirations and children from poor backgrounds lose out on quality of early years provision
Patrick Butler: Experts warn that 'artfully packed' ideas from the US downplay poverty and inequality in the lives of problem families and are being conscripted as 'moral arguments' to take children into care
26 Apr 2014: Zoe Williams: The idea that a child's brain is irrevocably shaped in the first three years increasingly drives government policy on adoption and early childhood intervention. But does the science stand up to scrutiny?
22 Apr 2014:
As the teaching unions join the polarised debate over the best way of educating the under-fives, there is middle ground, says Estelle Morris