Education minister Nadiem Makarim announced he would abolish Indonesia’s national exams in favour of a PISA-style student assessments. We asked two experts how this policy should best be rolled out.
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Inadequate public education on a new language policy has generated resistance from parents at the early childhood education level in Ghana.
I know first-hand the need for a rehabilitative rather than punitive system.
Children see adults on smartphones, looking up information they need to know, and being continuously connected. They want to copy this behaviour in their play and practise being an adult.
School officials can do a better job engaging families of color. Here are five ways for them to start.
It is important not to take the issue of ‘torture houses’ as only peculiar to Qur’anic schools.
Largely unknown today, Bourbaki was the last mathematician to master nearly all aspects of the field. There’s just one problem: Bourbaki never existed.
While large-scale education assessments, such as the PISA, are meant to show how education systems are faring around the world, evidence shows these assessments come with a host of problems.
The humanities can supply wisdom to guide our galloping technological progress.
Objections raised about the school syllabus by parents, schools and civil society point to a bigger problem with the state.
Indonesian researchers developed an Indian-inspired toolkit to assess literacy and numeracy among elementary-level students. The results were worrying.
Adult education should never be seen as a luxury.
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Women have to push through barriers to access higher education.
When the wall fell – education equality did too.
Women face a number of socio-economic challenges that make it harder for them to access higher education.
Amid plans to create special sports divisions for high-poverty schools, coaches at such schools explain how they produce championship-winning teams despite having fewer resources.
Martin Luther is credited with initiating the split in Christianity that came to be called the Protestant Reformation. But don’t count out Erasmus, an early proponent of similarly radical ideas.
Many Americans fear that AI will take their jobs. And it might – but it’s more complicated than that.
Children in classrooms – particularly in disadvantaged areas – are already feeling the very real effects of funding cuts.
We found that the key factors behind poor cognitive function were related to levels of education, being a woman, marital status and being poor.
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Joseph Panzer Chair in Education and Research Professor of Law, University of Dayton
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