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23 votes
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Seven years of spaced repetition software in the classroom
6 votes -
Parents with disabilities face extra hurdles with kids' remote schooling
8 votes -
A year of spaced repetition software in the classroom
8 votes -
Americans - What is a "pep rally"?
5 votes -
The Bully's Pulpit - On the elementary structure of domination
3 votes -
Why can’t we just hold classes outdoors instead?
11 votes -
US pediatricians call for in-person school this fall
12 votes -
Why I’m learning more with distance learning than I do in school
8 votes -
Many schools are already closed until the end of the year. So what happens to all those missed classes?
11 votes -
Singapore: Most workplaces to close, schools will move to full home-based learning from next week
4 votes -
NYC schools will close Monday
6 votes -
Momentum builds for NYC teacher ‘sickout’ mutiny over de Blasio’s refusal to close schools
5 votes -
At the Green Free School in Copenhagen, you're more likely to find pupils repairing a bicycle or doing urban farming than sitting in front of a blackboard
8 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 -
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 -
Bay Area students and teachers rally for school funding and Prop 13 reform
6 votes -
After Labour's conference pledge to scrap Ofsted and private schools, does the envied Finnish education system provide the blueprint?
8 votes -
Meritocracy prizes achievement above all else, turning life into an endless competition and making everyone—even the rich—miserable
11 votes -
China Muslims: Xinjiang schools used to separate children from families
9 votes -
Mobile phones to be banned in Victoria state schools from 'first to last bell
19 votes -
Desperation and broken trust when schools restrain students or lock them in rooms
9 votes -
Political confessional: I think private schools should be banned
23 votes -
What it felt like: If “living history” role-plays in the classroom can so easily go wrong, why do teachers keep assigning them?
6 votes -
Answer Sheet California is overhauling sex education guidance for schools — and religious conservatives don’t like it
10 votes -
California teachers pay for their own substitutes during extended sick leave
10 votes -
How does a rural Colorado county with three people per square mile send thirty students to an Ivy League institution?
9 votes -
This is what it sounds like hiding in a dark classroom during a school shooting
15 votes -
Long school commutes are terrible for kids
10 votes -
I’m a North Carolina public school teacher. Here’s why I’m walking out today.
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A search for answers, a search for blame - In grieving Parkland, a fight over school discipline and the PROMISE program is ripping the community apart
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'We want a kid you don't have any idea what to do with': Sacramento Academic and Vocational Academy helps very vulnerable students succeed in high school—and beyond
7 votes -
Indonesian kids keep getting 'possessed by spirits' during high school exams
8 votes -
The post-Columbine question remains the same: Can school shootings be prevented?
5 votes -
The Baraboo Nazi prom photo shocked the world. The city’s response shocked its residents.
14 votes -
Father of Sandy Hook shooting victim dies by apparent suicide
7 votes -
Racist violence threat keeps Charlottesville schools closed
10 votes -
This school district in Texas may create its own police force
6 votes -
Gym class is so bad, kids are skipping school to avoid it
20 votes -
‘I feel invisible’: Native Americans languish in public schools
9 votes -
A Texas elementary school speech pathologist refused to sign a pro-Israel oath, so she lost her job
18 votes -
In China, a school trains boys to be ‘real men’
12 votes -
US elementary school staff dresses up as Mexicans and MAGA border wall for Halloween
17 votes -
Why I let my daughter wear makeup to school
13 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
16 votes -
David Hogg, after Parkland. Furious and unflinching, an NRA enemy, an accused “crisis actor,” and a high-school grad trying to figure out what’s next
8 votes -
'To call myself Canadian would speak to the success of residential schools'
3 votes -
What we can learn from Ghana's obsession with preschool
5 votes -
Why do kindergarteners need a song about school shootings?
6 votes -
Schools without rules: Private schools' curriculum downplays slavery, says humans and dinosaurs lived together
10 votes