Faith schools are outperforming their secular counterparts at every level of education research has found.

A standin head teacher is being paid £30000 for two months work at a secondary school.

League tables for school tests taken by 14yearolds this summer will not be published it has emerged.

School pupils are being made drowsy and less attentive in lessons by new airconditioned "energy efficient" classrooms two separate studies have warned.

People with science degrees may be welcomed into the profession.

Learn about Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa origins and traditions at History.com (PRWeb Dec 19, 2008) Read the full story at

Nosa Abdalla Anglo, 19, was only a year away from joining a secondary school in Khartoum in 2005, but is still in primary school four years later and worries about her chances of going to high school in 2012.

Judith Regan has absolutely furious at journalist and author Michael Wolff. In fact, she so mad she's getting ready to sue him. Wolff has written a number of uncomplimentary articles about Judith. Now he's writing a book about Rupert Murdoch

9-year-old Alex Greven - a fourth-grade boy from Colorado who wrote a book for boys about how to talk to girls - now has a film deal with Fox. The Guardian notes a couple other self-help books that have gotten

The American Library Association has announced the finalists for the William C. Morris YA Debut Award. This is a new award that honors a book written for young adults by a first-time, previously unpublished author. Here are the five finalists.A

Francisco Casavella, who had picked up this year's prestigious premio Nadal for Lo que se de los vampiros, has passed away.

Best/books of the year selections at the New Statesman, The Independent, and Words without Borders.

Horace Engdahl's infamous perceived-as-anti-American comments certainly have led to a lot of discussion -- not the worst thing. In the New Statesman Jonathan Derbyshire takes another stab at what it all might mean, in Rise of the new Anglo-world order.

at The Economist, Playboy of the eastern world.

In Le Monde Thomas Wieder writes about the Vitalite de la traduction -- specifically as far as social science books goes.

The most recent addition to the complete review is our review of former French foreign minister Hubert Vedrine's History Strikes Back, supposedly on How States, Nations, and Conflicts Are Shaping the 21st Century.

In his Salon-column in The Moscow Times Victor Sonkin finds that in Russia: Literary results for the outgoing year were mixed, not to say mediocre. If literary awards provide any guidance of the general picture (and given their number, in

French publishers notoriously dump most of their books on the market during the so-called rentree litteraire, around the end of August (segueing nicely into the literary prize-season), but a second rentree at the beginning of the year has established itself

In The Nation Charles Taylor looks at four Derek Raymond books, in Death at One's Elbow: Derek Raymond's Factory Novels, while in Partisans of Oblivion: A Situationist Novel Joshua Clover reviews Michele Bernstein's All the King's Horses.