Sexual and reproductive health education is a key component in a multifaceted.
approach to address the sexual and reproductive health needs of adolescents
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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.
The Cree concept ‘wâhkôhtowin’ emphasizes more-than-human kinship relations.
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Leaked curriculum drafts in Alberta show a desire to revive old colonial myths. To face today's challenges, we need stories that teach how humans are related to each other and to all life forms.
A vicious cycle: the academic gaps in schools start at the teacher training institutions.
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Objections raised about the school syllabus by parents, schools and civil society point to a bigger problem with the state.
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.
South Africa's introducing coding as a school subject but until teacher education, IT infrastructure and internet connectivity issues, among others are addressed, the country has a long way to go.
The curriculum is already overcrowded. Can we really ask teachers to take this on too?
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While shifting cyber safety education beyond privacy is a step in the right direction, teachers already have to contend with an overcrowded curriculum.
Writing for pleasure improves long-term learning outcomes in a range of areas, including maths and science.
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There needs to be more opportunity in school and at home for students to learn to write for enjoyment.
A man adds his comments to a spontaneous memorial of flowers and sidewalk writing that has appeared a block from the Tree of Life Synagogue on Monday, Oct. 29. A gunman shot a killed 11 people while they worshipped at the synagogue the Saturday before.
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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.
‘No religion’ doesn’t mean atheism for a start.
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Textbooks were once a major piece of educational infrastructure. But as digital content expands, a new kind of 'textbook' is improving the quality of K-12 instruction.
Daniel Day-Lewis won the 2012 Academy Award for his portrayal of Abraham Lincoln. Is Spielberg’s historical drama a good way to learn about the 16th U.S. president?
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The changes required of a textbook that referred to a bakery – an “inappropriate” form of Japanese culture – illustrate how the system falls short of its goals of deliberative and critical education.
William Shakespeare is a sometimes controversial figure in South Africa’s school system.
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