Some educators say iPad tablet computers and other mobile technology aid the learning of students as young as those in kindergarten. Other teachers maintain that introducing technology to such students can be harmful.
Teacher practices and classroom demographics can play a role in delaying the development of gender-based stereotypes and prejudices among young students, some researchers said at a recent conference. Equitable practices in co-ed classrooms can help increase the time boys and girls continue to play together and can have academic and social benefits for members of…
Students sit in the test-taking room, with full access to computers and wireless connections. As they work on national exams, they can be seen accessing the Internet from time to time. Are the results from this test going to be corrupted because these test-takers are not isolated from global information resources?
School districts big and small across the country have rushed to start using digital course materials, purchasing thousands of tablet computers along the way. Advocates argue these expenditures ultimately save money by eliminating paper textbooks and making the classroom more efficient.
Students studying to be teachers at the middle and high school levels at the University of Massachusetts, USA, are protesting a new national licensure procedure being developed by Stanford University with the education company Pearson.
Sixty-seven of the 68 students studying to be teachers at the middle and high school levels at the Amherst campus are protesting a new national licensure procedure being developed by Stanford University with the education company Pearson.
Med en økonomisk 2020-plan vil regeringen sikre unge mere og bedre uddannelse. Regeringen vil blandt andet sætte fokus på regler, der ”hindrer en fleksibel anvendelse og tilrettelæggelse af arbejdstiden, for eksempel uhensigtsmæssige arbejdstidsregler”.
Several months ago we described how PISA results show that, when it comes to the question of private versus public schooling, it’s the students who make the school. Both private schools and public schools with student populations from socio-economically advantaged backgrounds benefit the individual students who attend them. But PISA results also showed that there…