[ad_1] Liam, 18, who has learning disabilities, had always been told by family members that he would never find work. It was upsetting to hear but, with 95% of people with learning disabilities unemployed, not an unreasonable assumption. When he secured a job planting trees for a conservation charity, he was so happy he burst…
[ad_1] “Least influential of education’s most influential information sources.” — Education Week Research Center “full of very lively short items and is always on top of the news…He gets extra points for skewering my high school rating system” — Jay Mathews, The Washington Post “a daily dose of information from…
[ad_1] Science is all around us, says Er Ya Qin, a staff of 12 years at Science Centre Singapore and a mother of a 3-year-old girl. In this article, she explains how parents can discover scientific concepts in everyday life together with their children – even if they are only a few years old. Er…
[ad_1] More from this theme Recent articles Councils will be given the power to set up academy trusts and ask their maintained schools join them under plans to convert all schools by 2030, the government has announced. Secondary schools will also have to meet a new “ambition” to raise GCSE grades, and leaders will be…
[ad_1] Several weeks ago, I asked whether America’s present strategy for serving our lowest performing high school students is really the best we can do. This wasn’t a rhetorical question; possibly the answer is yes. That strategy is to try much harder than in years past to keep such students from dropping out, while also…
[ad_1] The in-person event, which ran March 21- 22, opened with a discussion about the shape of the sector, hosted by Vivienne Stern, director of Universities UK International. Stern argued that the sector “refuses to be complacent” in the face of the challenges posed by the pandemic and Brexit. The panel were optimistic about the…
[ad_1] Colorado charter schools serve far fewer students with disabilities than district-run schools do. The gap means those students don’t have access to the same educational opportunities as their peers, and school districts end up serving a larger share of students who require expensive services. Colorado charter leaders say they’re willing and able to do…
[ad_1] Poorer pupils will be left behind by the government’s new plan for schools because of the failure to offer adequate funding and ambitious ideas, experts and teachers have warned. Education secretary Nadhim Zahawi announced on Monday that all pupils will be offered targeted support as part of the long-awaited white paper on schools. But the…
[ad_1] One of the biggest changes have taken place this week in the education sector. On Monday, the University Grants Commission (UGC) announced the introduction of the Central University Entrance Test (CUET), which is now mandatory for undergraduate admission at any of the 45 central universities in the country. CUET is a revamped version of CUCET and…
[ad_1] Based on the spending patterns of more than 3,000 school districts, U.S. schools are on track to spend more than $1.5 billion of their federal pandemic recovery funds on after-school programs, according to FutureEd, an independent think tank at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy. This figure makes after-school programs the fourth most…