“In the UK there are plenty of academics telling policy makers that good research like this cannot be done. But the schools are showing it can." Robert Slavin is discovering signs of paradox in the English education system – that those who shout loudest that things must change are sometimes the ones least convinced they ever will.

Indications that extreme war-related trauma is still affecting the lives of second and third generation Holocaust survivors may have wider implications for research into stress-torn families.

Have researchers at the University of Otago in New Zealand hammered the last nail in the coffin of the idea that single parenting is ever at the root of children’s problems?