Ben Newmark News Today

This week's digital staffroom talks gender-questioning young people, inclusion, behaviour and consistency

In total, 22.3 per cent of pupils missed more than one in 10 sessions in the last academic year, roughly double the proportion in 2018-19. Of disadvantaged pupils, nearly two in five are now classed as “persistently absent”. A Centre for Social Justice report this week concluded that Covid has well and truly shattered the online schools

Eleven strangers are given a quarter of a million dollars to split evenly. Will they take their fair share? Or will the allure of more money

Netflix is taking on The Traitors at its own game. The streamer has ordered The Trust, an 8-part reality series that delves into the theme of greed.

Netflix has officially announced the upcoming premiere of its newest reality competition series titled The Trust: A Game of Greed.

Tom Rees and Ben Newmark set out five principles to begin articulating what a good life is and should be for all our children

The government's key promise to fix the broken SEND system is to make mainstream schools more inclusive. But how big a challenge will this be?

This week's conversation took in struggling readers, meritocracy and effort, social mobility, Black history throughout the year, strike days and the coronation

Investegate announcements from Barclays PLC, Proposed placing of ordinary shares in Absa Group

We must rethink troubling assumptions at the heart of the SEND green paper in order to restore dignity to a failing system, write Ben Newmark and Tom Rees