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Aug 22, 2024 | 
msn.com | Tom Bennett
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Jul 8, 2024 | 
msn.com | Tom Bennett
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Jan 25, 2024 | 
bennettt.substack.com | Tom Bennett
Years ago I waited tables in TGI Fridays, where they used to run competitions for staff to see who could sell the most sticky, smoky meat and goldfish bowls of margaritas. Until one day the good times stopped rolling and the managers decreed there would be no more. The reason? One of them had read a book: ‘Punished by rewards’, and claimed that it described how people shouldn’t be incentivised by something so gaudy as an incentive. The author was Alfie Kohn.
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Jan 3, 2024 | 
ukcolumn.org | Tom Bennett
Mike Robinson, Debi Evans, and Charles Malet with today's UK Column News.
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Sep 22, 2023 | 
spectator.com.au | Tom Bennett
The Education Act of 1880 made it compulsory for all children in the UK to attend school between the ages of 5 and 10. The 1918 Education Act saw that rise to 14; in 1944 it went to 15. In 1972, the age crept up to 16, and finally in a gasp of heroic ambition, 2013 saw it hit 18 for full time education. Children, history insisted, had to be in school, for their own good, and for the good of society. And largely, society agreed with that.
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Sep 22, 2023 | 
spectator.co.uk | Tom Bennett
Text size Small Medium Large Line Spacing Compact Normal Spacious Comments The Education Act of 1880 made it compulsory for all children in the UK to attend school between the ages of 5 and 10. The 1918 Education Act saw that rise to 14; in 1944 it went to 15. In 1972, the age crept up to 16, and finally in a gasp of heroic ambition, 2013 saw it hit 18 for full time education. Children, history insisted, had to be in school, for their own good, and for the good of society. And largely,...
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Aug 29, 2023 | 
educationnext.org | R. Shep Melnick |Tom Bennett |Wayne D'Orio |Wayne D’Orio
Ten minutes after class starts, a student flings open the door, struts in, and yells, “What’s up, bitches?”If this kind of conduct is familiar to you, you don’t need a primer on how behavior has become worse—much worse—since students returned to school post-pandemic. Chances are you’ve observed just what the data from the National Center for Education Statistics report: 84 percent of school leaders say student behavioral development has been negatively impacted.
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Aug 4, 2023 | 
spectator.com.au | Tom Bennett
London’s schools are about to become less safe. The city’s mayor, Sadiq Khan, has decided to appoint Maureen McKenna to join its violence reduction unit (VRU), with a view to reducing crime by ‘driving down exclusions in schools’ while ‘increasing a sense of students’ belonging’. The VRU has equally noble aims: ‘we believe violence is preventable, not inevitable’, they state.
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Aug 4, 2023 | 
spectator.co.uk | Tom Bennett
Comments London’s schools are about to become less safe. The city’s mayor, Sadiq Khan, has decided to appoint Maureen McKenna to join its violence reduction unit (VRU), with a view to reducing crime by ‘driving down exclusions in schools’ while ‘increasing a sense of students’ belonging’. The VRU has equally noble aims: ‘we believe violence is preventable, not inevitable’, they state.
