California’s surgeon general has implemented schoolwide screenings for trauma. A social work professor explains why the rest of the nation should do the same.
School funding doesn’t add up.
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There’s a worry some students don’t get enough opportunity to enjoy silent reading in schools. Here’s some advice on how to change that.
Australian schools are pretty much left to their own devices when it comes to teaching students about the climate emergency.
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Despite calls for climate change to be part of our education, Australia has not designed, implemented nor funded a coherent, educational approach to our climate emergency.
It’s estimated up to 50% of teachers leave the profession within five years of graduating.
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If we don’t find ways to keep new teachers in schools then we face a teacher shortage, larger class sizes and more people teaching outside their field of expertise.
The number of students achieving GCSEs in technical and creative subjects along with religious education has declined yet again.
There are more than 33 million students in Indonesia’s public schools, while the number of those enrolled in universities amounts to around seven million.
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The lack of safe spaces for students to express themselves and explore their academic passions can be seen as a reason why Indonesia doesn’t perform well in global education indexes.
Schools and parents have a role to play in the future of our children.
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The best-selling author of the Tomorrow series is also a teacher and school principal. His new book The Art of Growing Up has many truths on raising children, but also many contradictions.
A professor of information discusses how an app she developed can help solve the problem of schools failing to report when students are restrained or secluded.
Gladys Berejiklian has said a new selective school will provide another local option.
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Selective schools aim to give all gifted students, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds, opportunities they may not have had otherwise. But that’s not what’s actually happening.
Simply taking lessons outside can do wonders for children’s education and well-being.
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Yoga and mindfulness are becoming more prevalent in America’s public schools. But are they subtly promoting religion? A scholar who has served as an expert witness in several yoga cases weighs in.
Students listen to their teacher, Shuma Das, at the Sahabatpur Daspara Ananda school in Sahabatpur village, Bangladesh in 2016.
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