… compared to 1998, children today are spending far less time on self-directed learning—moving freely and doing activities that they themselves chose—and measurably more time in a passive learning environment ─ Read item ─
The Daily Beast: Anti-Muslim School Bullying: Sometimes, It’s Even the Teachers Doing It
Muslim students being bullied or harassed for their faith is increasingly becoming the norm not the exception in America. A 2015 study by California’s CAIR chapter surveyed over 600 Muslim students in California and shockingly found that 55 percent had …
The Guardian: Breakfast does feed young minds: evidence grows of link between meals and learning
While the controversy over Sats occupies the headlines, at the Forest Academy, in an area like many in the country blighted by low wages, high unemployment and inadequate incomes, there is another major concern: if a child is hungry, it’s harder for …
The Daily Beast: How Public Schools Demand Failure and Perpetuate Poverty
The most obvious deficiency of the argument that schools are the best means to overcome poverty is that there are clearly better approaches, such as vocational schools. The prospect of creating schools specifically designed to provide marketable skills has been …
The Nation: Schools in crisis as new year begins
SOME schools in Krabi province have no teacher at all due to technical problems related to the Education Ministry’s recent structural overhaul. The problem persists just as the new academic year for state schools across the country kicks off today …
Washington Post: ‘Big data’ was supposed to fix education. It didn’t. It’s time for ‘small data’
There is now more data available than can reasonably be consumed and yet there has been no significant improvement in [educational] outcomes. ─ Read item ─
School feeding programme will attract millions out-of-school children, says Ajimobi | NAN
“A daily school meal provides a strong incentive to send children to school and keep them there. It allows children to focus on their studies rather than their stomachs and helps to increase school enrolment and attendance,” Ajimobi said. ─ …