“No-zero” grading policies are becoming more common in US schools. South Carolina is the first state to ban these policies.
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All students and families will be impacted by cuts and provincial reforms being imposed on Ontario schools, and those who are already disadvantaged will bear the brunt.
A desire to fight ‘wokeness’ and reduce government spending are among the reasons that Trump and his supporters want to close the Education Department.
A new documentary highlights teaching techniques of an educator who went the extra mile for her students.
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.
Polarization among the public and politicians threatens to undermine educational progress made over the past few decades.
Magoha’s impact is unmistakable in higher education, basic education, and in national examinations in Kenya.
Kenya faces the challenge of delivering quality education without discriminating against learners based on social or economic background.
Ignoring local realities risks excluding children from learning.
School closures were hard, but led to new skills that should be built upon.
The pandemic education shock has raised five critical issues that demonstrate how student learning and achievement and social well-being are far from mutually exclusive.
Insights of neuroscientist Ian McGilchrist, philosopher Nel Noddings and physicist Ursula Franklin help centre students and our collective future in debates about education and technology.
The NSW curriculum review advocates for students to learn at their own pace. While this may work within a classroom, there is no research supporting the reform of a whole education system.
Carl James and Kulsoom Anwer discuss the injustices and inequalities in the Canadian education system.
Canadians for the most part have been well served with dispassionate professional judgements about matters of public interest, except when it comes to what kids learn at school.
Letting parents choose which school their child attends positions parents as consumers, and often diverts students and funding away from public schools.
Kenya’s once financially healthy universities are in financial straits.
Though his education initiative staggered while he was in office, the late former President George H.W. Bush had an influence that continues to shape education policy, an education historian says.
When higher education is thought of as a commodity, students and teachers lose out. A new partnership-based approach can provide a much richer learning experience.
The cycle of overpromising and disappointment has left donors, politicians and policymakers of all stripes looking to improve K-12 public schooling with an underwhelming track record.
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Assistant Professor of Education, UMass Lowell
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Professor of Education, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Research, Foundations & Higher Education, Northern Arizona University
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Professor of Economics, Lancaster University
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Wilf Malcolm Institute of Educational Research, University of Waikato
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Lecturer in Political Science, Nelson Mandela University
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Professor of Economics, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex
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Research Chair in Education and Director of the Centre for International Research on Education Systems, Victoria University
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NRF Accredited & Senior Researcher; Lead Coordinator of the South-South Educational Collaboration & Knowlede Interchange Initiative, Cape Peninsula University of Technology
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Director of Research and Deputy Head of Southampton Education School, University of Southampton
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Lecturer in Economics and Social Statistics, UCL
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Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, The University of Texas at Austin
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Professor of Politics, Coordinator of Program in Public Policy Analysis, Pomona College
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Professor and UNESCO Chair of the Political Economy of Education and Senior Fellow, China Policy Institute, University of Nottingham