Policymakers and others often invoke the 1957 Russian launch of sputnik when trying to spark a discussion about education reform. A rhetoric scholar examines how often they succeed.
Academic gains made over the past four decades have begun to erode.
Troy Aossey/The Image Bank via Getty Images
Polarization among the public and politicians threatens to undermine educational progress made over the past few decades.
Prof George Magoha, then Kenya’s cabinet secretary for Education, with school pupils and parents in Nairobi, in September 2019.
Simon Maina/AFP via Getty Images
School closures were hard, but led to new skills that should be built upon.
Research from Alberta points to the burden parents have faced with home learning. Here, a youth passes Bloor Collegiate Institute in Toronto, May 27, 2021.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
The pandemic education shock has raised five critical issues that demonstrate how student learning and achievement and social well-being are far from mutually exclusive.
Schools are facing accelerated COVID-19 pressures to integrate technology into children’s education, and how they do has far-reaching implications.
(Shutterstock)
Insights of neuroscientist Ian McGilchrist, philosopher Nel Noddings and physicist Ursula Franklin help centre students and our collective future in debates about education and technology.
The NSW curriculum review advocates for students to learn at their own pace. While this may work within a classroom, there is no research supporting the reform of a whole education system.
COVID-19 has highlighted longstanding racial inequalities in the education system. Educators say there is a way forward and out of this.
(Leonardo Burgos/Unsplash)
Canadians for the most part have been well served with dispassionate professional judgements about matters of public interest, except when it comes to what kids learn at school.
Advocates of ‘school choice’ are often talking about wanting public funding for models like charter schools, but specialized programs should also be considered part of school choice debates.
(Shutterstock)
Letting parents choose which school their child attends positions parents as consumers, and often diverts students and funding away from public schools.
Th University of Nairobi. Universities in Kenya are struggling to keep afloat.
Flickr/Nzomo Victor
Though his education initiative staggered while he was in office, the late former President George H.W. Bush had an influence that continues to shape education policy, an education historian says.
Students and lecturers at the University of Queensland researching ‘students as partners’ activities across Australian universities.
The University of Queensland
When higher education is thought of as a commodity, students and teachers lose out. A new partnership-based approach can provide a much richer learning experience.
Betsy DeVos, shaking hands at a school choice rally shortly before she became education secretary in 2017.
AP Photo/Maria Danilova
The cycle of overpromising and disappointment has left donors, politicians and policymakers of all stripes looking to improve K-12 public schooling with an underwhelming track record.
After years of claiming they want to fix what’s wrong with public schools, education reformers are still hunting for solutions.
Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock.com
The cycle of overpromising and disappointment has left donors, politicians and policymakers looking to improve K-12 public schooling with an underwhelming track record.
Sarah Hanson-Young has come up against the pressure of the Australian Education Union.
Mick Tsikas/AAP
Some Liberals love to deride Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young. In the past, the government’s immigration minister and attack dog, Peter Dutton, was particularly insulting when she was spokeswoman in his…
Governments must move away from seeing education solely as an economic benefit.
from www.shutterstock.com