The education secretary, Nicky Morgan, has made it a priority in her vision for England's schoolchildren and numerous experiments are under way to try to find the most effective ways of instilling the advantages of "character" and resilience in children from more challenging backgrounds.
He runs his own prominent, methodologically inept experiments on schoolchildren.
Reformers want to try new things, while traditional educators and unions say trying out untested policies on students would be tantamount to making schoolchildren guinea pigs in an experiment.
And so the argument goes, crudely speaking: Reformers want to try new things, while traditional educators and unions say trying out untested policies on students would be tantamount to making schoolchildren guinea pigs in an experiment.
She was a charismatic lecturer to audiences at all levels, and made several visits to the Edinburgh Science festival, enthusiastically and generously developing experiments that the schoolchildren could carry out in the festival's ad hoc labs.
To explore how learning in children might differ from rooks, jays, and other members of the highly intelligent crow family, Cheke teamed up with a fellow Clayton lab member, psychologist Elsa Loissel, to try the same three experiments on local schoolchildren aged 4 to 10 years.
Among the science instruments that were lost: a meteor tracker and 32 mini research satellites, along with numerous experiments compiled by schoolchildren.
On instructions from Israeli schoolchildren studying science, he performed an experiment on growing crystals in space.
It was a mammoth task – a double-blind experiment, in which 650,000 schoolchildren were given the vaccine, 750,000 were given a placebo, and over 400,000 children acted as a control group and were given neither.
British astronaut Tim Peake has invited schoolchildren to help him in an experiment to learn more about how to grow food in space.
