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The ways in which school closings affect children are just beginning to be known, but early indications are they’re taking a negative toll on kids’ learning and overall well-being.
Open education resource platforms improve access to education and are globalising education on a scale never seen before.
With school shootings in 2021 at the highest they’ve ever been, experts on the topic offer advice about what to do about it.
Too often, corporal punishment breaks young people and brutalises them.
New evidence from Somalia points to effective ways to deliver public services in conflict-affected and fragile contexts.
Benin’s new abortion law will take a woman’s educational, professional and material situation into consideration.
Problems include no fields, no courts for games, no playgrounds, no bike racks and no traffic-calming surrounding the school. Bringing in minimum standards is important.
Indonesia can serve as an important model for the Taliban of how Muslim nations and faith-based organisations can play a big role in expanding girls’ education.
A growing number of states are recognizing Indigenous Peoples Day on what has traditionally been Columbus Day. An education scholar weighs in on what this means for America’s schools.
Results from our preliminary study strongly challenge the assumption that Indonesian parents are barriers to the delivery of school-based sexual health education.
Studies on homework are frequently quite general, and don’t consider specific types of homework tasks. So it isn’t easy to measure how effective homework can be. But here’s what we do know.
As missionaries expanded into Africa, they held a special grudge against polygamy. Here’s how that affected education.
Planning outdoor early learning and child care has implications for training and recruiting educators as well as for planning, developing and funding physical spaces.
Calls to reinstate home economics as a solution to modern woes reduce the field to a set of practical skills, undermining its breadth and complexity.
This year summer schools will have to figure out how to tend to the emotional and academic needs of students coming out of remote learning.
Comprehensive sexuality education is needed to equip young girls and boys with pregnancy prevention knowledge before they have sex.
Palestinian children are resilient, but even they have been tested by the pandemic and now more military conflict. Securing their right to a safe education should be a priority.
Each state has its own rules for which vaccines kids must have to attend school and the reasons students can opt out.
Chronic absenteeism is a pressing issue in high-poverty schools, but research suggests that serving students breakfast during class can help keep kids in school.
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