Countries pursuing major education reforms have often seen demand for alternative learning grow. Can NZ avoid repeating that pattern?
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Alternative educational movements offer insights about how to help university students find purpose and hope as they navigate an increasingly complex world.
One candidate has gone after for-profit colleges. The other has tried to loosen restrictions. What else does the record show about what Donald Trump and Kamala Harris have done on education?
Despite a ‘damning’ report, the alternative education system still works wonders with students outside the mainstream. What it needs is more money and commitment.
Fragmentation, inconsistency and a lack of accountability between alternative education providers means not all young people get access to a good education.
A recent storm has emerged over reports of secret government memos detailing complaints of bullying and racism at Steiner schools in the UK. Steiner schools, built around the philosophy of Austrian educationalist…
Mr Drew’s School for Boys, currently showing on Channel Four, illustrates in graphic detail the kinds of behaviour that causes trouble in school. Eleven boys under the age of 12 who have either been excluded…
Since the 1970s, a panic about “disaffected” boys underachieving in formal schooling has gripped Western society. Despite efforts in Australia like Boys: Getting It Right and the UK Raising Boys Achievement…
Each new administration tends to try to improve compulsory education by introducing a new and purportedly better type of school. The current government has at least three, and is pushing vocational schools…
More than 33,000 disenfranchised young Australians are taking part in at least 400 “non-conventional schooling” programs, according to the largest ever national survey of students who have fallen out of…
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