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Brain Gym Exposed
December 19, 2009Apparently one of the worst types of snake oil in education has been disowned by the DCSF.
According to this report in the Mail, Ed Balls has acknowledged that Brain Gym, the program of physical exercises that were meant to make kids think better, is without evidence.
I’ve only just discovered that Newsnight dealt with the issue more than a year ago:
I can only hope that BLP will be next.
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