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7 votes
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US universities seek ways to protect students and faculty from being prosecuted by Chinese authorities
7 votes -
How men’s rights groups helped rewrite regulations on campus rape
6 votes -
National trends in grade inflation, American colleges and universities
15 votes -
The kids are alt-right: Teachers know the warning signs when students are radicalized by online hate movements. They just don’t know how to stop it — or if it’s a power struggle they can ever win
29 votes -
US Justice Department says Yale discriminates against Asian, white applicants
10 votes -
Losing the education lottery
4 votes -
Why can’t we just hold classes outdoors instead?
11 votes -
How do unschoolers turn out?
11 votes -
ICE announces modifications to international student policies amid coronavirus pandemic
8 votes -
US pediatricians call for in-person school this fall
12 votes -
Higher ed: Enough already
17 votes -
The death of expertise
9 votes -
Colleges face student lawsuits seeking refunds after coronavirus closures
12 votes -
Why I’m learning more with distance learning than I do in school
8 votes -
Prison inmates in Western Australia made 100 school desks in less than two weeks to donate to families for children homeschooling during the coronavirus pandemic
5 votes -
Michigan Governor Whitmer announces plan for free college tuition for front-line workers battling coronavirus
13 votes -
Many schools are already closed until the end of the year. So what happens to all those missed classes?
11 votes -
A very detailed Corona curriculum for your kids
5 votes -
Singapore: Most workplaces to close, schools will move to full home-based learning from next week
4 votes -
PSA for parents/guardians of school-age kids: Many distance/online learning tools are currently available for free through your child's teacher
For anyone who's caring for school-age children, I want to let you know that nearly every single online education platform/tool is currently offering up their normally premium paid services for...
For anyone who's caring for school-age children, I want to let you know that nearly every single online education platform/tool is currently offering up their normally premium paid services for free on account of school closures. While some will offer these directly to parents/students, most of them require a teacher to sign up and then have the student account exist underneath them.
If there is a resource that you or your children would like to access, please email your child's teacher and ask if they'll sign up for it. It'll likely take only two minutes on their end (and they'll be happy to do it! trust me!), but it'll open up a ton of resources for you and your child.
7 votes -
Joe Biden adopts part of a tuition-free public college proposal as a nod to US progressives
10 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 -
What if the court saw other rights as generously as gun rights?
12 votes -
How the working-class life is killing Americans, in charts
26 votes -
What is Finland's Phenomenon-based Learning (PhenoBL) approach? This approach breaks down subject-based compartmentalisation of knowledge
7 votes -
Clearing up the confusion around Prop 13 on the 2020 ballot
7 votes -
‘Mr. Bob,’ 88-year-old crossing guard, saves two children’s lives before sacrificing his own
12 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 -
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 -
Air filters create educational gains
14 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 -
Many Japanese children refuse to go to school
16 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 -
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 -
ICE creates fake US university, lures international students, collects money, arrests them
21 votes -
Bay Area students and teachers rally for school funding and Prop 13 reform
6 votes -
Student tracking, secret scores: How college admissions offices rank prospects before they apply
15 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 -
What college admissions offices really want - Elite schools say they’re looking for academic excellence and diversity. But their thirst for tuition revenue means that wealth trumps all
10 votes