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23 votes
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Students say the Lambda School coding bootcamp isn't delivering on its promises, with concerns about poor instruction and prospects while being bound by income-sharing agreements
16 votes -
A six year old girl was arrested and held in a mental institution without her parents' consent, under a controversial Florida law known as the Baker Act
11 votes -
Connecticut school board reinstates mascot Native Americans called demeaning
4 votes -
Why Finland's schools outperform most others across the developed world
15 votes -
What I learned about life at a company that deals in dead bodies
5 votes -
How Finland starts its fight against fake news in schools – country on frontline of information war teaches everyone from pupils to politicians how to spot slippery information
7 votes -
Too many of America’s smartest waste their talents
11 votes -
Demoted and placed on probation
5 votes -
With great tech comes great responsibility - A student guide for navigating ethical issues in the tech industry
9 votes -
USDA proposes new rules that would allow schools to cut the amount of vegetables and fruits required at lunch and breakfasts while giving them license to sell more pizza, burgers and fries
14 votes -
Virginia school board stops removal of LGBTQ-themed children’s books
7 votes -
How to create events to help girls prepare for STEM careers
13 votes -
Judge rules that student loan debt is dischargeable in bankruptcy
18 votes -
A comparison of American history textbooks from Texas and California
16 votes -
Teaching in the US vs. the rest of the world
12 votes -
MIT has released the results of the review of the university's interactions with Jeffrey Epstein
6 votes -
Air filters create educational gains
14 votes -
Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machines, tracking the locations of hundreds of thousands
35 votes -
Ninety-five percent of American schools now conduct school-shooting drills. We spoke to more than twenty students to learn what they see, hear, and feel during what has become a routine experience
14 votes -
Rhode Island lawsuit: Students sue for the right to learn civics
16 votes -
Many Japanese children refuse to go to school
16 votes -
Elements of AI - Free class for AI Fundimentals
7 votes -
Kalamazoo school district decides not to have LGBTQ books in reading program
4 votes -
ABBA's Björn Ulvaeus has gifted books to high school students across Sweden to try to stem the flow of fake news
8 votes -
For the eleventh year in a row, Iceland is the country ranking first in the World Economic Forum's Geneva Equality List
7 votes -
Finland said it aims to teach 1% – or more than fifty million – of all Europeans basic skills in artificial intelligence through a free online course
11 votes -
FTC settlement with for-profit University of Phoenix over deceptive advertising will require them to cancel $141M in student debt and pay $50M to former students
14 votes -
America's parents want paid family leave and affordable child care. Why can't they get it?
15 votes -
What's the education system like in your country?
Ok I'll start: Brazil: here the schools are split between the fundamental level, which is 1-9th grade, which is then subdivided onto fundamental I and II, which range from 1-5th (ages 6-11) and...
Ok I'll start:
Brazil: here the schools are split between the fundamental level, which is 1-9th grade, which is then subdivided onto fundamental I and II, which range from 1-5th (ages 6-11) and 6-9th grades (ages 11-15) respectively. Then we have 'medium' level ("Ensino Médio") which goes from 10th-12th grade, and then we have a national test called ENEM, where everyone takes a test to be able to enroll in the many colleges/universities which accept it, where you then reach 'superior' class and take technical courses and the like.
Class goes from 7-12:20 Am for fundamental II and 1-5:20 pm for fundamental I. This is because each day is divided into six periods of 50 minutes (+a 20 minute break, like in most places) for the sake of making subject distribution easier.
There are 8 subjects in fundamental class, Portuguese (grammar), math, geography, history, science, physical education, English (still mostly grammar) and arts. (Unsurprisingly it's more about culture & music than how to draw)
In 'medium' class, 3 more subjects are added, which are biology, physics and chemistry.Funding for education is reserved for the states to decide, although it usually goes from 15-25% of total tax revenue.
16 votes -
In terms of reading test score points per hour of learning, Finnish students came out on top, followed by kids in Germany and Sweden
5 votes -
Teacher effects on student achievement and height: A cautionary tale
13 votes -
Ukraine has become the 100th country to endorse the Safe Schools Declaration – a Norwegian initiative to make schools safer even during war
10 votes -
Why selection bias is the most powerful force in education
16 votes -
I learned to play the piano without a piano
12 votes -
ICE creates fake US university, lures international students, collects money, arrests them
21 votes -
Scandinavia is famous for its liveable cities, but a new university course in Nordic urban planning has raised questions about replicating the region's approach elsewhere
8 votes -
One in five University of Otago, New Zealand medical students to be denied graduation after falsifying overseas placement records
6 votes -
Korean education: A view from the trenches
13 votes -
Bay Area students and teachers rally for school funding and Prop 13 reform
6 votes -
In China, surge in students informing on professors
8 votes -
Are liberal arts colleges doomed? The cautionary tale of Hampshire College and the broken business model of American higher education
8 votes -
How to design events to inspire girls about STEM careers
9 votes -
Student tracking, secret scores: How college admissions offices rank prospects before they apply
15 votes -
What teaching ethics in Appalachia taught me about bridging America’s partisan divide
23 votes -
An unseen victim of the college admissions scandal: The high school tennis champion aced out by a billionaire family
9 votes -
I’ve opted out of homework for my young children. Here’s why, and how you can, too.
10 votes -
"You can't say that! Stories have to be about white people"
12 votes -
A woman has been killed and ten other people wounded in a sword attack at a vocational school in the Finnish city of Kuopio
8 votes -
The hedge fund billionaire’s guide to buying your kids a better shot at not just one elite college, but lots of them
11 votes