A strong majority of Canadians believe climate change should be a priority in education, but teachers and students lack the necessary tools and support to effectively incorporate it into classrooms.
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Children consistently expressed a desire for more choice in their education.
Education policies can be highly effective, but not necessarily for everyone in the same way.
A new executive order would create new guidelines on school discipline, suggesting the current ones are ‘discriminatory.’
If Canadians want to fund education, health care and climate adaptation, Canada must grow its economy. And to do that, it needs smarter innovation policy.
Standardised testing has been tried and scrapped before. But with a tender for a new ‘standardised assessment tool’, the government appears to be trying again.
A desire to fight ‘wokeness’ and reduce government spending are among the reasons that Trump and his supporters want to close the Education Department.
Conditional cash transfers can increase access to education – but they need to be accompanied by other measures to boost literacy.
In Canada, where fewer than 10 per cent of kids regularly eat school-provided meals, parents, especially mothers, are left to juggle school lunches, often under major pressure.
Doctoral students are an important part of New Zealand’s future knowledge economy. But funding challenges and decades of benign neglect have left the research sector struggling.
The government must call together a task force of educators, families and researchers to work toward better solutions for inclusive education as education for all.
The Supreme Court has twice weighed in on ‘release time’ policies, and many states allow districts to implement them.
The new government needs to tread carefully as it looks to reintroduce standardised testing. A one size fits all approach to testing students can have negative consequences for everyone involved.
The shockingly poor exam results indicate underlying structural issues that extend far beyond the realm of individual student performance.
Policymakers and others often invoke the 1957 Russian launch of sputnik when trying to spark a discussion about education reform. A rhetoric scholar examines how often they succeed.
Everything from the Voice to Country Road homewares is talking about ‘co-design’. New research identifies three clear ways to improve the way it works in education.
Kenya’s budgetary allocation misses opportunities to improve basic education and address unemployment.
Gifting teachers through crowdfunding sites may make an immediate difference but can’t compensate for underfunding and inequitable funding of public schools.
Archival documents show that in the 1980s, British education officials refused to engage with Muslim communities about funding faith-based schooling.
Schools barely rated a mention in the election campaign. But the incoming Albanese government faces a sector in crisis.
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Professor of Education and Public Policy, Durham University
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Adjunct associate professor, Southern Cross University
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School Education Program Director, Grattan Institute
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Honorary Senior Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Education Futures, The University of Melbourne
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Director of Research and Deputy Head of Southampton Education School, University of Southampton
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Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, School of Education, University of Nottingham
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Management Consultant & Occasional Lecturer in Management & Economics, CQUniversity Australia
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Associate Professor in Language, Literacy and TESL, University of Canberra
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Professor and Head of School, School of Early Childhood and Inclusive Education, Queensland University of Technology
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Emeritus Professor of Education, University of Derby
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Dean of Education, School of Education and Institute for Education, Bath Spa University
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Executive Director, Public Policy Institute, Australian Catholic University
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Professor of Social Impact, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor, Australian Catholic University