I've recently put two stories up at Samizdata on educational themes. The first is a straight copy and paste job, with a only a small burst of preliminary chat from me, of David Gillies' comment here on this posting, about academic cheating. I also linked from Samizdata to this highly recommendable recollection by Natalie Solent, on the same subject, also written in the first person.

And the second is a reaction to this Telegraph article about how a British mum has been jailed for failing to prevent her daughter's truancy.