Announcing ambitious education policy goals is easier than ensuring institutions, employers and educators have the resources necessary to achieve them.
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Strengthening reading instruction is essential, but that doesn’t mean buying commercial programs is the answer — especially when deteriorating classroom conditions drive qualified teachers away.
By choosing to offer the Cambridge exam system and publicly criticising NCEA, a group of prominent schools subtly helped shape the government’s new education policy.
Instead of investing millions into schools vulnerable to the whims of private interests, the New Zealand government should be investing in bolstering exisiting public schools.
A new documentary highlights teaching techniques of an educator who went the extra mile for her students.
Polarization among the public and politicians threatens to undermine educational progress made over the past few decades.
If national teacher policies are not comprehensive, practical and inclusive of teachers, they can undermine the very workers they aim to help, a global education policy expert argues.
The last time the country’s courts authorised such harsh police techniques as sleep deprivation and starvation was during the dictatorship.
Africa’s universities supposedly became more independent after the early 1990s. But it appears they haven’t achieved much more than cosmetic autonomy from political interference.
More and more children are attending primary school in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. But there are worryingly large gaps in their learning.
Social media is being actively used in the public debate on Common Core, with an unprecedented 35,000 to 40,000 tweets each month.
The complex web of teacher trade unionism in the UK is about to become even more convoluted and competitive. One of the headteacher unions, the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT), has announced…
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Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, School of Education, University of Nottingham
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Programme Officer for Research (Higher Education), Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa
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Professor of Education and Director of Consortium for Policy Research in Education, University of Pennsylvania
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Professor, Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG)
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Senior Research Fellow, World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), United Nations University
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Associate Professor of Journalism, Penn State
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Professor of Education, University of Southern California
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Professor of Educational Administration, Penn State
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Professor, College of Education, University of Otago
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Professor, College of Education, University of Otago
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia
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Senior Lecturer in Education, Auckland University of Technology
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Distinguished University Professor, Faculty of Education, cross-appointed to Medical Imaging, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University