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in title, tags, annotations or urlThe historical and cultural origin of the Efterskole - Find den rigtige efterskole! Søg på fag, priser og ledige pladser. - 0 views
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Historically and culturally the Efterskole is related to the Danish free school movement, and the Efterskole is often regarded as a junior form of the Danish Folkehøjskole (Folk High School).
School of Education at Johns Hopkins University-Inclusion of Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders - 0 views
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if the regular classroom teacher is not fully equipped to provide accommodations for a student with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD), then why discuss the need for inclusion? Why not continue the previous trend of sending all of those students to the "resource room" to be educated by the special education teacher? What can be gained in a larger setting?
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Individuals with an ASD are often recognized first by their ineptness in social interactions with others. They often say things that are inappropriate or they may speak only rarely if at all. In play, they may remain off in a corner inspecting rocks while their peers are carrying on a game of tag. If the student remains in the special educational setting with fewer interactions with mainstream classmates, he will undoubtedly experience little or no growth socially. The child may grow into an adult who has difficulty in the work environment because he has still not learned effective communication skills. The regular educational setting will, of course, only be as effective as the adults who are caring for the child, but with intentional teaching of social skills in this setting, more positive growth is likely.
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School's in for finances | The Sydney Morning Herald - 0 views
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Children can no longer afford to be ignorant of how complex financial products work. The world of finance and money is becoming rapidly more complex and requires an integration of education and safe financial products to ensure children grow up knowing how to manage money and debt. From this year, financial literacy will be included in the national school curriculum and will be rolled out across a range of subjects during the next three years.
Study: Malaysia has best English language speakers in Asia - Nation | The Star Online - 0 views
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Malaysia apparently has the best English language speakers in Asia, beating out Singapore, India, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, China and Kazakhstan - according to a Singapore-based English Language school.
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The school, Education First, which released the findings of their English Proficiency Index on their website Wednesday, ranked Malaysia as having the highest level of English proficiency out of 13 countries in Asia.
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On the global scale, Malaysia was ranked 11th out of 60 countries, with four of the top five slots going to Scandinavian countries, with Sweden and Norway taking the top two spots and Malaysia outperforming Singapore, Belgium, Germany, Latvia and Switzerland - countries which took the 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th spots respectively.
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Autistic children can be the nation's assets - Nation | The Star Online - 0 views
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The Director of the Special Education Division under the Education Ministry, Bong Muk Shin, said children under the Special Education Programme are those who have difficulty learning in the mainstream environment. The special education stream is divided into three based on the difficulties in learning, hearing and seeing.
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Autistic children are classified under those with learning difficulties. This is based on the general characteristics of autism such as the difficulties in focusing, communicating and socialising. Autistic children also tend to be hyperactive or prone to sudden aggression, which can at times harm themselves or others.
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Bong advocates early intervention programmes for autistic children. He said such programmes could help them immensely in preparing and adjusting to the schooling environment.
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Scandinavia school science slowcoach Norway gets left behind in PISA polls / News / The Foreigner - Norwegian News in English. - 0 views
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“We must have higher ambitions than staying around the average level among OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries,” declared the Minister at Tuesday’s press conference in Oslo.
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Norway is within the OECD (mean) average bracket when it comes to the sciences (494), and slightly below it in math (501). But these are still not results, “we can be satisfied with,” added Minister Isaksen.
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The PISA 2012 survey results were slightly different when it came to Norwegian students’ reading skills. They have improved since the last time, albeit just slightly, with 503 in 2009, against 504 now – though female pupils still did better than their male peers.
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You Can Give a Boy a Doll, but You Can't Make Him Play With It - Christina Hoff Sommers - The Atlantic - 0 views
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In April 2012, following the celebration of International Women's Day, the Swedes formally introduced the genderless pronoun "hen" to be used in place of he and she (han and hon).
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Egalia, a new state-sponsored pre-school in Stockholm, is dedicated to the total obliteration of the male and female distinction. There are no boys and girls at Egalia—just "friends" and "buddies."
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Classic fairy tales like Cinderella and Snow White have been replaced by tales of two male giraffes who parent abandoned crocodile eggs. The Swedish Green Party would like Egalia to be the norm: It has suggested placing gender watchdogs in all of the nation's preschools. "Egalia gives [children] a fantastic opportunity to be whoever they want to be," says one excited teacher.
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Graduation | Stanford Law School - 0 views
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The ceremony included 193 candidates for the degree of Doctor of Jurisprudence, 51 for Master of Laws degrees-20 in the area of Corporate Governance & Practice, 20 in the area of Law, Science & Technology, and 11 for International Economic Law, Business & Policy.
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Additionally, 12 graduates were awarded the degree of Master of the Science of Law, four were awarded degrees in the Doctor of the Science of Law, and two graduates were awarded a Master of Legal Studies degree
Walford 2009 Private Schools in England - 0 views
Statistics: how many people have autism spectrum disorders? - | autism | Asperger syndrome | - 0 views
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The latest prevalence studies of autism indicate that 1.1% of the population in the UK may have autism. This means that over 695,000 people in the UK may have autism, an estimate derived from the 1.1% prevalence rate applied to the 2011 UK census figures.
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Emerson and Baines (2010) in their meta-analysis of prevalence studies found a range of people with learning disabilities and autism from 15% to 84%, with a mean of 52.6%.
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Around a third of people with a learning disability may also have autism.
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Global Girl Power: To Fight Poverty, Invest in Girls - TIME - 0 views
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Girls who stay in school for seven or more years typically marry four years later and have two fewer children than girls who drop out. Fewer dependents per worker allows for greater economic growth. And the World Food Programme has found that when girls and women earn income, they reinvest 90% of it in their families. They buy books, medicine, bed nets. For men, that figure is more like 30% to 40%. "Investment in girls' education may well be the highest-return investment available in the developing world," Larry Summers wrote when he was chief economist at the World Bank. Of such cycles are real revolutions born.
Visuals : Facebook and College Admissions | schools.com - 0 views
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As Facebook has become more and more popular—if it were a country, it would be the third largest in the world—its use in the field of education has expanded, too. In fact, more than 80% of college admissions officers report using Facebook as part of their recruiting process. Are admissions officers really looking at the Facebook profiles of prospective students? And if so, are they making admissions decisions based on these profiles? Below is an infographic that highlights the answers to these questions and more—which might surprise you.
Teach Children Well: Teaching Well is About Balance - 0 views
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Good teachers need to be healthy
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All work and no play makes teachers (and the classroom) dull
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if a teacher isn't taking part in developing his or her own learning, then he/she has little to bring to the classroom
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