The National Party’s new curriculum policy proposes reforms, when there are already several underway. What schools and teachers really need is more funding and less change.
Maya Defianty, Universitas Islam Negeri Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta e Kate Wilson, University of Canberra
When teaching critical thinking, teachers still fall back on old habits ingrained in Indonesian education. This includes a culture of rote learning and “teaching to test”.
A U.S. tank moves past a painting of Saddam Hussein in March 2003 in Nasiriyah, Iraq.
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University students today are too young to remember the March 2003 start of the Iraq War, which has future foreign policy implications and changes how the conflict should be taught.
Focusing on grades or scoring doesn’t help students learn and retain information and causes pressure and stress.
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Teachers in a study identify ‘grading obsession’ as a top challenge in education. Some are fighting back and dedicating class time to student self-assessment and peer assessment activities.
Many view ChatGPT as a death sentence for homework. But beyond all the alarm, could it be the software offers students unprecedented chances to hone their language awareness skills?
A soldier stands guard at a makeshift camp in Somalia’s Baidoa, a southwestern town frequently attacked by Al-Shabaab militants.
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The negative effects of conflict on human capital – particularly nutrition, health and education – are larger than commonly thought.
The challenge is not so much to integrate sustainable development into engineering or management as to teach engineering and management for sustainable development.
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The challenge is not so much to integrate sustainable development into engineering or management education as to teach engineering and management for sustainable development.
ChatGPT is a sophisticated AI program that generates text from vast databases. But it doesn’t understand the information it produces, which also can’t be verified through scientific means.
Every year, parents have an opinion on the books on their kids’ reading lists – whether they think the books are stale, unchallenging or confronting. How are books and reading taught?
As the start of the school year looms, school uniform prices will be front-of-mind for many families already facing a cost of living crisis. What can be done to reduce the burden?
Technology is increasingly important in Holocaust education – seen here in ‘The Journey Back’ within The Richard and Jill Chaifetz Family Virtual Reality Gallery at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center.
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