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Ken Starkey defends the importance of business schools, while Martin Parker says ‘bring in the bulldozers’.
Management academics often face students in their classrooms with more practical experience in the business world than they have. But management is an important inter-disciplinary field that has a lot to offer business executives.
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Those who study, research and teach management are often viewed skeptically, even by their students, who might have more experience than they do in the business world. Here’s why that’s wrong.
Middle and high school students turn to alt-right websites for their research papers.
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A researcher discovered that many US students cite alt-right websites in their research papers. Should teachers discuss the websites to help students tell fact from fiction?
Refugee Journeys is a board game designed to help front-line workers and educators confront their bias towards refugees.
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Many Canadians have volunteered to help newcomers adjust to society. This board game was developed to help these volunteers understand what it feels like to enter a new country and build a new life.
Well-developed and implemented vision and mission statements can play a useful role in helping schools be good places to learn.
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Well-written vision and mission statements can guide decision-making, resource allocations, policy decisions, and how a school operates.
A poverty index is revealing new insights about deprivation in South Africa.
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A newish method called the multidimensional poverty index is revealing new insights into the South Africa’s poverty.
History textbooks suggest that in 1994 when formal apartheid and racial exclusion ended, so did prejudice and racism.
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History needs to focus on historical consciousness if students are to become capable of dealing with South Africa’s social problems.
Should schools be charged large sums to teach students about space science?
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Will new communications licensing costs make small satellites so expensive that they can’t be used for student education?
Students walk out of school in March 2018 as part of a nationwide protest against gun violence.
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Former Education Secretary Arne Duncan has called for a school boycott to change the nation’s gun laws and make schools safer. A scholar who studies protest explains how the boycott could work.
A great deal of teachers’ learning also happens in the classroom.
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Teachers who are just starting out often lack the subject knowledge needed for effective teaching.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern during the post-budget debate.
New Zealand’s coalition government in its first budget has treated public policies as investments, with the goal of improving social and environmental outcomes.
NAPLAN is a “dumb” test administered to all students, regardless of contextual factors such as location and culture.
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There is no need for all students to sit the same test, that asks the same questions, on the same day. We are smarter than that.
Creative thinking, learning and play have a valid place in the curriculum, but are difficult to test.
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Literacy and numeracy can be assessed through creative tasks, like creating a drama performance or an electrical circuit, without hindering creativity.
The Colosseum: a well-known ellipse.
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Not great at thinking in pictures? Try drawing, talking or using equations.
Radicalism is spread at schools in Indonesia. But, where do they grow?
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Identifying three types of schools that are prone to radical values.
4.5 million young Australians between the ages of nine and 24 have taken NAPLAN tests at some point during their schooling.
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NAPLAN has now been in place for a decade and needs ongoing review and refinement to make it more useful to classroom teaching and learning.
Agnesi was the first woman to write a mathematics textbook.
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May 16 marks the 300th anniversary of the first woman to write a mathematics textbook.
Both first- and second-generation immigrants in British Columbia and Ontario outperformed their non-immigrant counterparts in science literacy, in the 2015 Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development Programme for International Student Assessment.
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First and second-generation immigrants perform well in many Canadian provinces that take an “accommodation” approach.
In some rural Australian towns, there’s nobody left to help the elderly or coach cricket teams.
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Volunteers have long been the lifeblood of rural communities. But as their numbers shrink, remote towns are at a loss for how to replace them.
We need to look for more engaging and relevant assessments that use the tools available in an online environment for re-envisioning NAPLAN.
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Assessments need to be relevant to the real world and test more complex skills to better predict competency, standards of literacy and teaching.