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Why are we still teaching reading the wrong way?
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Bonfire of the humanities: The role of history in a society afflicted by short-termism
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Why is my university forcing me to see colleagues as "customers"?
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US Court: Detroit students have no right to access to literacy
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US elementary school staff dresses up as Mexicans and MAGA border wall for Halloween
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Modern STEM toys don't do a good job of educating because they're just toys, not tools
11 votes -
Your kid’s apps are crammed with ads
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In need of cadavers, 19th-century medical students raided Baltimore’s graves
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Winners take all: The elite charade of changing the world
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The iPhone’s new parental controls block searches for sex ed, allow violence and racism
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US school apologises after canteen serves dish with kangaroo meat
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Tech suffers from lack of humanities, says Mozilla head
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Huge majority of Australians oppose laws banning gay students and teachers
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When pop-up books taught popular science
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As Harvard’s admissions policy goes on trial, alleged victims of racial bias remain anonymous
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Scott Morrison will change the law to ban religious schools from expelling gay students
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How to study abusers: Should reading lists come with a content warning?
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German far-right party AfD launches site allowing school students to report teachers for being politically partial
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Religious freedom review enshrines right of schools to turn away gay children and teachers
Religious freedom review enshrines right of schools to turn away gay children and teachers How religion will divide the Liberals and inflame the Parliament
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Academic grievance studies and the corruption of scholarship
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The Grievance Studies Scandal: Five Academics Respond
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The US was once a leader for healthcare and education — now it ranks 27th in the world
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How to teach kids where food comes from – get them gardening
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Three teachers discuss what it’s like to survive a school shooting, and then return to the classroom
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Scientific publishing is a rip-off. We fund the research – it should be free
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Texas board votes to eliminate Helen Keller and Hillary Clinton from history curriculum
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Why I let my daughter wear makeup to school
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Chief Rabbi publishes first LGBT guide for orthodox schools
News article from the BBC: Chief Rabbi publishes first LGBT guide for orthodox schools An adapted summary in the Jewish Chronicle: the Chief Rabbi's groundbreaking message to Orthodox schools on...
News article from the BBC: Chief Rabbi publishes first LGBT guide for orthodox schools
An adapted summary in the Jewish Chronicle: the Chief Rabbi's groundbreaking message to Orthodox schools on LGBT+ pupils
Background: Ephraim Mirvis is the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth. This guide therefore applies to all Jewish Orthodox schools in the Commonwealth (the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, and so on).
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The other political correctness: America's elite universities are censoring themselves on China
11 votes -
The mismatch between the school day and the work day creates a child-care crisis between 3 and 5 p.m. that has parents scrambling for options
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What should the government's role in education be? How much schooling should be compulsory? How much of it should be paid for by the student or their parents?
This started as a sub-thread in a topic about possible contenders for the 2020 US Presidential race, but it generated enough interesting discussion that I thought it'd be worth spinning off into...
This started as a sub-thread in a topic about possible contenders for the 2020 US Presidential race, but it generated enough interesting discussion that I thought it'd be worth spinning off into its own topic, particularly so we can include people outside the US who are ignoring or filtering out topics about American politics.
To expand on the questions in the topic title:
- What level of education should be required by law of every citizen?
- How should schools be funded? What role should taxes play vs. tuition paid by the student or their parents?
- Should homeschooling be allowed, and if so, how strict should the educational requirements be?
And if you want to go really deep:
- What is the purpose of education in the first place? Is it to make better and more productive workers; to create an informed electorate; to learn for the sake of learning?
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Considerations on cost disease
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Latest study reveals sharp rise in essay cheating globally, with millions of students involved
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The myth of a campus free speech crisis
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How two thieves stole thousands of prints from university libraries
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The pluses and minuses of allowing medical marijuana at school
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Instagram is testing virtual communities for college students
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The humanities are in crisis - Students are abandoning humanities majors, turning to degrees they think yield far better job prospects. But they’re wrong.
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How does the internet work?
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The man who is fervent about feeding hungry kids, but hates food banks
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After a year of rising tensions, protesters tear down Confederate statue on UNC campus
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Shocking pictures show Indonesian preschoolers dressed in ‘ISIS costumes’
From Al Arabiya: Shocking pictures show Indonesian preschoolers dressed in ‘ISIS costumes’ From the Guardian: Kindergarten dresses children as jihadists for parade in Indonesia From the Australian...
From Al Arabiya: Shocking pictures show Indonesian preschoolers dressed in ‘ISIS costumes’
From the Guardian: Kindergarten dresses children as jihadists for parade in Indonesia
From the Australian Broadcasting Commission: Kindergarten under fire after parading children in niqabs, AK47s on Indonesian Independence Day
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Religion and Education Around the World
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Ottawa to declare federal holiday to mark legacy of residential school system
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America might be ready for democratic socialism. It’s not ready for the bill.
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What is education for?
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How learning science is catching up to Mr. Rogers
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Japanese medical school deducted points from exam scores of female applicants
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Saudi Arabia orders 16,000 students to leave Canada amid escalating clash
7 votes