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New research finds teachers tend to have tailored approaches to help students performing below standard, but not for their gifted peers.
Removing cost barriers helps girls to get a secondary education.
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Free secondary educational policy in Ghana is worthwhile but struggles to keep up with quality.
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Homeless families rehoused in temporary are bearing the brunt of the high travel costs and policies ill-designed to accommodate their specific needs.
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Australia’s teachers are predominantly Australian-born, female, and non-Indigenous. Most hail from middle-class backgrounds with urban upbringings, and are less likely to have disabilities.
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In a series of research forums young people talked about their fears around going to high school. And what kind of support they want.
The reasons that explain why girls don’t get into secondary begin in primary school.
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Deep-seated cultural practices – such as female genital mutilation and child marriage – prevent girls from making progress in school.
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Parents are enablers, motivators and facilitators of their children’s education.
Legacy schools in Ghana are over subscribed.
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Grouping of high schools in Ghana into categories perpetuates inequalities.
An empty schoolyard is seen, in Montréal in November 2020.
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A survey of high school students highlighted the tensions they faced when classes moved online during COVID-19 lockdowns.
Doing maths past 16 has been shown to better equip students for university, and not only those doing a maths degree.
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New research shows that secondary pupils who take maths past 16 have higher levels of a chemical that boosts brain plasticity and learning in general. What other teaching can provide this?
A 16-year-old’s academic performance impacts their future outcomes on every level, educational, professional and emotional.
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The data shows that attainment gaps in English education at age 16 cannot be attributed to any single factor.
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We need to revive teachers’ sense of satisfaction in their jobs.
Will de-streaming lead to the equity education that Black parents and community members have long sought?
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If Ontario’s de-streaming of high schools isn’t accompanied with other efforts to address cultural norms and values, streaming in many other forms and guises will continue.
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Children need to know how to get help when they feel at risk.
Something still seems to be missing in teaching mathematics.
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A major reason for poor performance in mathematics in Nigeria is that lessons in primary schools are not centred on pupils and activities.
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Overcrowding can have severe negative consequences for the education and safety of learners.
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Over the past few decades secondary schools have become larger and fewer in number. For parents, this had made choices at once more limited, but also more complicated.
Friendliness to newcomers is not translating into friendship in schools, finds one study. Here, a youth receives her Certificate of Citizenship from Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen and Citizenship Judge Marie Senecal-Tremblay on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on April 17, 2019.
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How to support students from diverse backgrounds to appreciate the inherent value of engaging one another in close friendships remains a question for educators.
The going gets tougher.
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Research has found that students suffer lower levels of well-being when they don’t regularly use their greatest strengths of character.
Policies that cut school expenditures under the premise of “doing more with less” can also contribute to a decrease in high school graduation rates that could easily cancel out those savings.
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While the purpose of education can’t be reduced to promoting economic growth, every child out of school represents both lost opportunities — and huge economic costs — for countries.