The cycle of overpromising and disappointment has left donors, politicians and policymakers looking to improve K-12 public schooling with an underwhelming track record.
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Some Liberals love to deride Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young. In the past, the government’s immigration minister and attack dog, Peter Dutton, was particularly insulting when she was spokeswoman in his…
Massive expansion of the education system has created new problems, and left old ones unresolved.
A leaked paper suggests that the federal government should take over funding VET courses. But it’s a path we should tread with great caution.
Cuba used three major methods to revolutionise its education system from the 1960s. The hard work has paid off and the system holds many lessons for other countries.
Two narratives have emerged from student protests in South Africa: reform on the one hand - and revolution on the other. Which narrative will triumph?
New analysis of public data highlights flaws in the education system that is leaving disadvantaged students in the most vulnerable positions.
By bringing private advocates to the fore in education, Arne Duncan further opened public education to privatized influences.
Curriculum reforms being introduced in Finland from 2016 will set aside time for ‘phenomenon-based’ learning across subjects.
A new survey has found many Russians want reforms to schools and better quality control of education.
The shockwaves from the latest round of school league tables are still reverberating across staff rooms up and down the country. The headlines have been about a drop in the proportion of pupils achieving…
For most governments, it’s their platform of education reforms that is politically one of the hardest programmes to push through. Yet push it through they do, in what has become a constant effort by politicians…
Only a tenth of education reforms carried out around the world since 2008 have been analysed by governments for the impact they have on children’s education. A new report by the Organisation for Economic…
The teachers of tomorrow should be eager to prepare for “your future, their future”, according to the National College for Teaching and Leadership’s new teacher-training recruitment campaign. Sadly they…
It is no secret that children of East Asian heritage excel at school. In England, for example, 78% of ethnic Chinese children obtain at least 5 A* to C GCSE grades, compared to a national average of just…
Students collecting their GCSE results this summer will now be obliged to participate in education and training until at least the end of the academic year in which they turn 17. From the summer of 2015…
This year’s GCSE results day is predicted to be “chaos” if recent exam reforms cause large fluctuations in students’ grades. Exam boards, teachers and teacher unions are talking of “nervousness”, “turbulence…
David Cameron’s cabinet reshuffle has been substantial. Nowhere more so than in education, where both the secretary of state for education, Michael Gove, and the minister responsible for universities and…
In what must surely be seen as a significant demotion, secretary of state for education, Michael Gove, has been moved to become chief whip in David Cameron’s cabinet reshuffle. Given he is such a big fan…
“PISA shock” is the term that has been coined for the sense of political crisis and knee-jerk policy reaction that typically occurs when a country drops in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and…
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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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Director of Research and Deputy Head of Southampton Education School, University of Southampton
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Professor and UNESCO Chair of the Political Economy of Education and Senior Fellow, China Policy Institute, University of Nottingham