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A dispute between the Chicago Teachers Union and the school district over in-person learning has resulted in classes being canceled. An education policy expert explains what is at stake.
Research tracking teachers, classes and their grades over many years shows gender bias has long-term impacts on students’ performance and their post-school study choices.
With vaccine mandates kicking in next Monday, the Teaching Council code of professional responsibility offers a guide to handling staffroom divides – if it’s used with care.
Modern classrooms are set up in very different ways to the rows of single desks. Does this modern furniture benefit learning?
Universities can ensure students in all disciplines are learning how to contribute to a world that they and future generations want to live in.
While the pandemic undoubtedly sped up the uptake of educational technology in higher education, it doesn’t point to an entirely online future.
Newly qualified teachers who aren’t involved in a good induction program are more likely to leave the profession within their first five years of teaching. And most don’t get these inductions.
The ongoing debate between teacher-led and student-led learning is simplistic. Education is a complex field and teachers adapt their methods to context. It’s never just one or the other.
Nigeria should stop showing contempt for history as a subject, profession or topic of discussion.
Effective education depends on good communication and relationships, but face masks hinder visual and verbal cues and can be unsettling. So how can teachers and students overcome these issues?
While COVID-19 has held back learning, the pandemic presents a historic opportunity to revamp education systems.
Recent allegations of cheating by university students in online exams suggest the students are adapting faster than the education system itself – and that should change.
There are significant gaps in what teachers in Ghana know about ozone depletion and climate change, even though these subjects are in the science curriculum.
A sociologist asked public high school teachers to draw maps of the neighborhood where they teach. Those with more detailed maps also made stronger cultural connections with their students.
Some students may wonder why they bothered returning to campus. Others are struggling online. But lecturers who do engage students think deeply about how they do it, using all available tools.
A history professor describes how student-designed video games have transformed his classroom and provided a substitute for academic essays.
The inclusion of new topics in Ghana’s comprehensive sex education curriculum has split opinions among parents.
Lockdown life accelerated the role of digital technology in the virtual classroom, but there is still no substitute for physical books in children’s lives and learning.
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Associate Professor in Language, Literacy and TESL, University of Canberra
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Professor, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne
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Professor Emeritus Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne
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