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Contracts in the Classroom
While contracts are an indispensable tool in the modern workplace, a new study has found that they may also be very effective in contemporary classrooms. According to a new article published in SAGE Open, courses in which students design their own course...
Writing Assignments Boost Critical Thinking Skills for Landscape Design Students
Dr. Ann Marie VanDerZanden is preparing students in her horticulture classes for challenging careers by boosting their critical thinking capacity. “Horticulture graduates entering the field of landscape design and installation must be able to integrate...
Western Cape Education Department Urges Parents to Send Children to School
The Western Cape Education Department has appealed to parents and caregivers to continue sending their children to school, despite today’s industrial action by teachers.
Ethiopia Secures $98m Education for All Fast Track Initiative Funding for Education
Ethiopia has received $98 million for education as part of the Millennium Development Goals on education. The Education for All Fast Track Initiative (EFA-FTI) announced the decision to improve the quality of primary and secondary education as well as...
Uneducated Thinking About Education?
The cover of the Insight Section of today’s San Francisco Chronicle poses a question that should be on everyone’s mind: Which route to a better education? This makes it a bit depressing that, upon opening the Section the first thing you read...
Seychelles Government Holding Meetings to Discuss Reforms in the Education Sector
The Seychelles ministry of Education is carrying out a series of meetings to explain the educational reforms that the government intends to carry out in the sector next year. Addressing the staff of the ministry and the National institute of Education...
How Parents Can Help Their Children With Schoolwork
Getting children to sit down, focus and learn their schoolwork is an age-old problem. Today, parents face the added challenge of cell phones, portable music devices like iPods, and the many distractions of the World Wide Web. There are so many things...
U.S. Charter Schools Closing For Financial Reasons
Supporters of charter schools argue that since enrollment in such schools is purely a matter of parental choice and discretion, ineffective charter schools would quickly lose their students and be forced to close down.
