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Test scores plummet — so Florida drops passing gradeWashington Post (blog)By Valerie Strauss Here's the latest disaster in Florida's standardized test-based school accountability system, which has been touted as a model for education reform around...
Spain teachers strike at all education levels to protest spending cuts under ...Washington PostMADRID — Teachers at all levels of Spain's education system are on strike to protest billions in spending cuts enacted as part of an austerity drive. 
What is going wrong with our juvenile justice system? Why are kids released only to return a few months or years down the track? Once again, a large group of New York City public schools will close their doors, their staffs will be fired and replaced, and new schools will open. Among the schools that will be closed are Flush... 
Leading adolescent psychologist Michael Carr-Gregg has rung alarm bells about the toxic focus on Year 12 results, saying it's become a parental, educational and media obsession with harrowing results for many students. 
AUSTRALIA IN THE ASIAN CENTURY – A series examining Australia’s role in the rapidly transforming Asian region. 
Putting the inspiration back into learning... We've just finished testing week in Alaska and for our children, that means three days of filling in bubbles on multiple-choice tests. Is it answer A or C? Is B the right answer or is it D? 
STUDENTS are quick to moan about their homework, perhaps with good reason, writes Sheradyn Holderhead.
20 questions for parents about K-12 school reformWashington Post (blog)If you are a parent, here are 20 questions for you to answer that will reveal how you would support a local school system that wanted to seriously reform. |
The Quaker School at Horsham (TQS) seeks artists and craftspeople for their annual TQS Day school fair to be held on Saturday, May 19, 2012 from 11:00 AM - 03:00 PM on the TQS campus on Meetinghouse Road in Horsham, PA... 
Educators from across Australia are urging parents to withdraw their children from national literacy and numeracy tests next month, saying they are a waste of money, create fear and stifle creativity. 
In 2010, Kevin Rudd asked Fr Alfonso Nicolas SJ, the international leader of the Jesuits, what he believed to be the major challenge facing western society. Nicolas replied 'the globalisation of superficiality'. 
TEACHERS in every Australian school will have a compulsory performance assessment each year as part of a Federal Government plan. 
MEN are turning down teaching jobs in primary schools out of fear of litigation, says the head of the Australian Primary Principals Association, who is calling for an effort to raise the status of the profession through higher wages and tougher... 
A research project completed at Murdoch University has suggested that encouraging artistic expression in children may play a key role in establishing critical thinking skills. 
The Prime Minister's long-awaited school funding reforms outlined in the Gonski Review have been quietly shelved. 
CHILDREN from higher socioeconomic areas are performing better at school than those in poorer areas, according to an analysis of school figures. 
RT @noagendaHS: This teacher's apology to her kids reminds me of John Taylor Gatto's 1991 Teacher of the Year speech. http://t.co/DNUjbUsa #homeschool... |
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