A Pesquisa Global para a Educação: More from Canada
“Good Teachers are critical. It is an absolutely vital factor.” — Dr. Ben Levin “A U.S. cannot improve its education system for all or even most children by keeping its present focus on charter schools, more testing, teacher evaluation and union bashing. None of those feature in the best-performing countries. There must be a focus on helping all schools improve, combining pressure with lots of...
A Pesquisa Global para a Educação: What Did You Learn Today?
“Children do not always learn what we teach. That is why the most important assessment does not happen at the end of the learning, it happens during the learning.” — Dylan Wiliam “It is right that teachers and schools are accountable to those with a stake in public education, and this requires assessments that are free from subjectivity. So we do need some form of standardized assessment. No entanto, the...
Sistema de Educação Bad — Qual é o custo real?
Investment in education is investment in people and in a nation’s future. And it is also about money! “O custo para os indivíduos e para a sociedade de jovens que abandonam a escola sem uma qualificação continua subindo,” stated OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría in connection with the OECD’s annual Education at a Glance report. De acordo com este relatório, the global economic crisis has proved much tougher for people...
A Pesquisa Global para a Educação: How to Support Your Education System
“70% of the variation in student achievement is accounted for by factors outside of the control of schools.” — Charles Ungerleider Professor Charles Ungerleider tells me he wrote his book, Failing Our Kids — How we are Ruining Our Public Schools (McClelland & Stewart, 2004), after he completed a term as Deputy Minister of Education for British Columbia. Para 40 years he had observed the Canadian...
For the Children
Brooke Jackman Foundation 10th Anniversary Read-a-thon is at the World Financial Center Photo courtesy of Brooke Jackman Foundation. September 13, 2001 In the playroom outside the doctor’s office, my six-year-old son was maneuvering a toy airplane through Lego constructed twin towers. The doctor explained his stomach pains were a symptom of post traumatic stress. In the midst of the insanity, I had failed to notice the...
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