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Integrated computing enables teachers to incorporate basic programming skills into K-12 students’ regular math, science and language arts classes.
Simply setting aside time for collaboration doesn’t always lead to better outcomes for teachers or students. Effective collaboration requires skilful leadership and a common language.
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.
Education can’t make up for inadequacies in other policies that continue to cause mass unemployment.
According to the Canadian Anti-Hate Network, far-right groups have been trying to stack school boards with candidates harbouring anti-equity ideologies.
Putting students at the centre of their learning is a powerful tool for decolonising the classroom.
An English professor takes a critical look at why today’s students are assigned the same books that were assigned decades ago – and why American school curricula are so difficult to change.
From the founding of the U.S., public schools were seen as a key way to develop an informed, active citizenry. Social studies educators struggle to achieve that goal today.
The US and the Soviet Union are both seen as responsible for the Cold War and presented as manipulating more vulnerable states.
Researchers argue that because all learning involves language, language and literacy should be taught explicitly across all school subjects. Language must be understood and learned in context.
Education must care for the multiple identities of students, not an elitist interest in some groups only.
Researchers estimate that COVID-19 disruptions in 2020 set back the education system by five years.
Preparing young people for their future requires teachers to be climate change educators, but the federal government has resisted its inclusion in the curriculum. It’s up to states to take the lead.
The controversy over critical race theory is an opportunity for Americans to examine how other democracies deal with diverse viewpoints in public schools, an education policy expert argues.
The 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks is an opportunity for teachers to focus less on recreating the day and more on what students can learn from it, two curriculum experts argue.
Nigeria should stop showing contempt for history as a subject, profession or topic of discussion.
Considering our relationships to stories about the past and looking at learning as a process of encounter can help Canadians to become better treaty partners.
While COVID-19 has held back learning, the pandemic presents a historic opportunity to revamp education systems.
Calls to reinstate home economics as a solution to modern woes reduce the field to a set of practical skills, undermining its breadth and complexity.
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Adjunct Professor, University of Technology Sydney
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Emeritus Professor of Education, University of Derby
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Programme Leader, MA in Educational Assessment, UCL
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Professor, University of Cape Town
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Associate Professor, School of Education, Aarhus University
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Professor of Secondary Education, Faculty of Education, University of Alberta
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Campus and Secondary Principal at the International School of Geneva's La Grande Boissière, Research Associate at the University of Geneva's department of Education and Psychology, Université de Genève, Université de Genève
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Senior Lecturer in the School of Culture, History and Language, College of Asia and the Pacific., Australian National University
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Associate Professor in Education, University of Sydney
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The University of Western Australia
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Professor emerita, Australian National University
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Lecturer in Education, University of Newcastle
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