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19 décembre 2015

Why Every Student Succeeds Act still leaves most vulnerable kids behind

By Mary Battenfeld and Felicity Crawford. For a decade, congressional attempts to revise the embattled 2001 No Child Left Behind Act – a reauthorization of the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) – hit a brick wall. More...

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19 décembre 2015

Zuckerberg is ploughing billions into ‘personalised learning’ – why?

By Natalia Kucirkova and Elizabeth FitzGerald. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg believes personalised learning is the answer to many of education’s current woes, and is one of the four key areas that he and his wife Prescilla Chan’s US$45 billion Chan Zuckerberg Initiative will fund. More...

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19 décembre 2015

Why scholars emphasize the need for affirmative action

By Kalpana Jain. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, during oral arguments in the affirmative action case, Fisher v University of Texas, on Wednesday, December 9, suggested,

There are those who contend that it does not benefit African-Americans to get them into the University of Texas, where they do not do well — as opposed to having them go to a less advanced school, a slower-track school where they do well.

Justice Scalia is no stranger to controversy. More...

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19 décembre 2015

How much diversity can the US Constitution stand?

By Tanya Washington. The Supreme Court’s ruling in Fisher v University of Texas, an affirmative action case the Court is currently deciding, will dictate whether public colleges’ and universities’ use of race to create diverse learning environments is constitutional. More...

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19 décembre 2015

Why Supreme Court case on race in admissions matters more than ever

By Liliana M Garces. In a number of recent incidents across the country, black students have expressed how they continue to experience hostility because of their skin color. These students have spoken of their feelings of isolation and disempowerment. More...

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19 décembre 2015

The covert racism that is holding back black academics

By Kalwant Bhopal. Students are walking out in protest against racial inequality and injustice in the US and have been rallying together in days of action at campuses across the country. The #StudentBlackout movement has challenged and confronted white supremacy and anti-black attitudes on university campuses, and has made demands for more black and minority ethnic faculty members. More...

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19 décembre 2015

Fame and bullying on Yik Yak – and how to deal with it

By Chris Archer-Brown and Julie Barnett. A social media platform called Yik Yak that has taken universities by storm is also raising concerns over anonymous cyberbullying of students and academics. Yik Yak, which lets users comment anonymously on events and issues in their local area, has been at the centre of allegations of bullying and other forms of abuse. More...

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19 décembre 2015

African stories to get and keep kids reading during school holidays

By Espen Stranger-Johannessen. Holidays are a great occasion for reading, whether kids are doing so alone or a family is sitting down together with a book. But what do you do if the bookstore doesn’t have books in your language, or they’re just too expensive? This is often sadly the case in Africa, a continent that’s home to more than 2000 languages. More...

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19 décembre 2015

Schools need to do more to improve children’s religious literacy

By Tariq Modood. British society is in serious need of higher levels of religious literacy. The potential for misunderstanding, stereotyping and oversimplification based on ignorance is huge – and schools have a big part to play in putting this right. More...

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19 décembre 2015

When families move, high school students may suffer

By Constance Lindsay and Courtney Anderson. Residential mobility is a hallmark of modern American society. Policies encourage mobility as a way of improving outcomes for low-income families residing in poor neighborhoods. More...

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