Posted by Editors In The News, Research, Teaching Sunday, June 28th, 2015
ORANGUTAN REHABILITATION Baby School Newly arrived infants and very young orangutans spend the day in a forested nursery where they are cared for 24/7 by their babysitters. Their health is carefully monitored as many of them have come to the center severely malnourished and they are extremely susceptible to illness due to having compromised immune […]
Posted by Editors Andreas Schleicher, Big Data, EdReform, EduBusiness, Educationalists, Exams, In The News, OECD, PISA, Schools, Teaching, Technology, Testing, Waldorf Sunday, June 28th, 2015
Andreas Schleicher works out of the OECD in Paris, and is best known for the the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), “a triennial international survey which aims to evaluate education systems worldwide by testing the skills and knowledge of 15-year-old students.” According to a January 2010 presentation given to the Quality of Childhood Group […]
Posted by Editors In The News, Quintilian, Teaching Sunday, June 28th, 2015
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus was born about 35 A.D. at Calagurris. Young Quintilian was sent to Rome for his education and among his teachers were the famous grammaticus Remmius Palaemon, and the rhetorician Domitius Afer. After returning to his native land, he was brought back to Rome in 68 A.D. by Galba, then governor of Hispania […]
Posted by Editors D.C. Phillips, In The News, Methodology, Policy, Politics, Research Tuesday, June 23rd, 2015
“Political and ideological differences, or perceived differences, are often argued-out explicitly, but sometimes the conflict is carried out via “proxies”. In the case of the deep divisions about educational policies and practices, for the past couple of decades the battle has been pursued on both fronts – explicitly, but also via proxies in the area […]
Posted by Editors EdReform, Educationalists, In The News, Media Watch, Policy, Politics, Research Tuesday, June 23rd, 2015
With so many myths in education, it’s a wonder anyone learns anything at all: Seven Myths About Education 8 Myths That Undermine Educational Effectiveness Myths in Education, Learning and Teaching 50 Myths and Lies That Threaten America’s Public Schools 10 Myths About Education in the US and What It will Take to Fix Our Schools […]
Posted by Editors Academies, EdReform, In The News, Labour, Mike Baker, Politics, Schools, Tories Monday, June 22nd, 2015
BBC News, August 2010 “In education, if you wait long enough, most ideas come full circle. This week saw Royal Assent for the Academies Bill, one of the fastest pieces of education law ever enacted. But while it could have far-reaching implications, the Academies Act actually turns back the clock to a reform brought in […]
Posted by Editors Edmond Holmes, EdReform, Exams, In The News, Merit Pay, Policy, Standards, Working Conditions Friday, June 19th, 2015
Below is an excerpt from the writings of Edmond Holmes a notable Irish educator and former Chief Inspector of Schools in England of a century or so ago. In What Is And What Might Be: A Study Of Education In General And Elementary Education In Particular, 1911, Holmes retells the story of the Revised Code […]