Teachers who take alternative routes to being certified tend to leave their positions sooner than educators who go through colleges of education, new research shows.
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Learning about sustainable development and consumption should not be limited to particular disciplines like those in the sciences and technologies.
Just because learning is remote in many places doesn’t mean teachers can’t build more meaningful relationships with their students, a researcher who has examined the issue suggests.
With caregivers’ faces covered, infants and young children will miss out on all the visual cues they’d normally get during stages of rapid developmental growth.
South Africa’s national lockdown will amplify the needs of children with special education needs and disability.
From being subjected to harassment and threats to getting assaulted or having their cars keyed, many American teachers are being victimized.
A clearer understanding of teachers’ needs is required if schools and universities are to be better prepared for a future where technology is key to teaching and learning.
Transforming knowledge and letting oneself be transformed by the knowledge of others requires slowness, almost an asceticism.
Research from around the world shows that boosting teacher pay can lead to better student learning, but only if it’s accompanied by other things.
Election campaigns inspire hope, but they can also quickly lead to political despair. A scholar says young citizens can learn how to take positive action and stay hopeful.
To grasp how extraordinary evils are often committed by ordinary people, we need to consider how we define evil, and most importantly, whom we consider to be the agents of evil.
Lifting the standards of rural and remote students to the those of urban students could boost the economy by 3.3%
Valuing the skills and contributions of our educators and reversing the high rates of turnover is critical and can only be achieved through fair pay and rewards.
There is no need for all students to sit the same test, that asks the same questions, on the same day. We are smarter than that.
Research shows early childhood educators are among the lowest-paid Australians, with some finding better pay in other fields such as night-time retail work.
Critical thinking is of paramount importance, especially as it applies to research on the internet – and to our energy future. Educators have a duty to ensure students avoid fake news on energy.
Roughly 700,000 students ages 13 to 17 have experienced homelessness in the last year. An education researcher says the obstacles that these students face can threaten their college dreams.
In a time of populism and political polarization, children and young adults need to learn to think critically, with complexity and nuance. History, as a subject, is more important than ever.
Striking a better gender balance would be easy, but until now universities have not been paying much attention to the problem.
Pressure on schools to make rapid improvements discourages deeper thinking about long-term solutions. Education can learn a lot from “slow” movements.
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Professor of Work and Organisation, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate professor (Curriculum Inquiry / Rural Education), University of Canberra
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Professor, Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland
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Professor and Head of School, School of Early Childhood and Inclusive Education, Queensland University of Technology
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Emeritus Professor of Education, University of Derby
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Professor of Economics, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Education, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Educational Psychology and Quantitative Research, Evaluation, and Measurement, The Ohio State University
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Senior Lecturer in Education & Technology, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Vice President for Enrollment Management, Bentley University
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Open Evidence Research, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, UOC - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
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Professor of Education, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Professor of Education and Affiliate Faculty in Philosophy, University of Cincinnati
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Professor in Psychology, University of Florida
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Professor of Education and Public Policy, Graduate School of Education, University of California, Riverside
