Learning inequities between students widen when instruction is exclusively remote and online content is not always context appropriate. A study of open educational resource collections found that nearly 90% of higher education online repositories were created either in Europe or in North America; 92% of the material in the Open Educational Resources Commons global library is in English.
Is it equitable?
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the rapid shift to online learning left out at least half a billion students worldwide, mostly affecting the poorest and those in rural areas. The report underlines that the right to education is increasingly synonymous…
Joe Biden is tapping C Kirabo Jackson, a labor economist whose research advocates robust public spending on schools, to fill out the president’s three-member Council of Economic Advisers (CEA), according to a White House official.
The selection suggests public education will be a key area of focus for Biden’s brain trust ahead of a 2024 re-election bid expected to turn on the strength of the economy. The position does not require Senate confirmation.
Jackson, who will take a leave from Northwestern University, where the professor focused on economics, education and public policy, is best known for research on what draws…
Recently, the Scottish Government issued a consultation on national school uniform guidance that they are planning to issue. The main stated aims of the new guidance will be to reduce costs for families, and to comply with equal obligations.
The guidance is to apply to all schools in Scotland, whether local authority schools, independent schools, or grant-aided schools.
For a consultation document, it already has some very clear ideas about what the proposed guidance will, and will not contain.
So, we know that the guidance will not:
require the adoption of specific school uniform items;
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SHERIDAN — Sheridan College’s summer community classes are giving students — and instructors — the opportunity to explore and enjoy interests in an educational, low-pressure environment.
This year, the college is offering numerous courses to the public, including a mountain biking class and a golf class. The courses began June 12 and ran for eight weeks.
Parker Klar is the campus recreation coordinator for Sheridan College, but this summer he’s wearing another hat as the instructor of the golf community interest class. Klar’s background includes a stint as a head golf professional at a resort course in Minnesota, and when…
School boards: A local board authority is responsible for the provision and maintenance of schools
Today’s School Boards: A unit of local government that determines the policy, budget, leadership and administration within certain districts, public and Catholic schools.
The evolution of our school boards shows distinct and magnified changes. incorporating political-Social and Religious aspects from our communities into school policy and administration.
Ethnic and religious populations have changed reflecting a more conservative attitude toward how school boards should respond to gender-based issues, financial responsibilities, religious learning, language preferences vs traditional French-English language policies, and much more. Many school boards cannot…
The York Catholic District School Board has voted against flying the Pride flag at its Catholic Education Center in June.
At a board meeting on Monday night, trustees defeated a motion to fly the flag with a vote of six to four.
The decision came after advocates and critics clashed for months over the issue. Police have been called to at least three recent board meetings.
Demonstrators shouted at trustees immediately after the vote and were escorted out of the room. Some spectators were cheering the results.
Trustees Angela Saggese, Theresa McNicol, Maria Iafrate, Michaela Barbieri, Frank SD Alexander and…
BELGRADE, Serbia –
Serbia’s education minister submitted his resignation Sunday following two mass shootings, one of them at a primary school, left 17 people dead, while the European country’s government urged citizens to turn in all unregistered weapons or run the risk of a prison sentence.
Education Minister Branko Ruzic is the first Serbian official to resign over the shootings despite widespread calls for more senior officials to step down in the wake of the back-to-back bloodshed. Ruzic cited the “catastrophic tragedy that has engulfed our country” in explaining his decision.
Soon after the attack at the school in Belgrade,…
Quebec’s education minister has formalized a promise to ban prayer rooms and other religious practices in the province’s public schools.
Bernard Drainville issued a directive late Wednesday saying schools must ensure that none of their spaces are used “in fact and in appearance, for the purposes of religious practices such as open prayers or other similar practices.”
“Schools are places or learning and not places of worship,” Drainville wrote on his Twitter account, where he published a copy of his order.
No requests for accommodation will be heard, the government added.
The directive came after Drainville said earlier this month…