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Schools and students face uncertain future in Japan - CNN.com - 0 views

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  • Tokyo (CNN) -- Students in many districts across Japan brushed off their uniforms and shouldered their bookbags for the first day of the new school year on Wednesday. But while most were worried about meeting their new teachers or what their class schedules might be, some were facing the threat of nuclear contamination or the loss of former classmates.
  • "I just got a letter from my mom," he said. "It says that she is hurting because we're separated. But she says don't worry, we will go home together after the nuclear power plant settles down."
  • "I haven't got used to the life yet, because I have to live separately from my mom," he said walking into the Minamisuna Primary School. "I miss her."
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  • Dozens of schools were wiped out or too badly damaged to reopen in Miyagi prefecture.
  • Governments and educators are scrambling to repair schools, round up teachers and cope with the tens of thousands of displaced people.
  • A different set of problems in Fukushima, where authorities have begun testing schools, kindergartens and playgrounds across the prefecture after parents expressed worries about high levels of radiation.
  • "In response to it, we conduct to check radiation level to secure the (safety) of the children."
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Education: an enduring casualty of war | Back on Track - 0 views

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Sierra Leone conflict civil war education children schools teachers video UNICEF

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  • Teachers Without Borders on 06 Apr 11
     
    In the Kailahun district of Sierra Leone, burned out buildings and bullet holes serve as a constant reminder of a turbulent and horrific past. This remote eastern border area was one of hardest hit by Sierra Leone's brutal civil war. It was just south of Kailahun, in the village of Bomaru, where rebels of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) first crossed into the country from neighbouring Liberia, marking the start of the conflict. Education was one of the early casualties of war- schools were destroyed and teachers were among those who fled the area.
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Creative writing tests limit creativity, Sats review finds | Education | The Guardian - 0 views

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creative writing writing tests creativity England

shared by Teachers Without Borders on 07 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • A writing test taken by 11-year-olds in England should be scrapped because it stops children being creative, a government review has found.Ministers asked Lord Bew, a crossbench peer, to review Sats – tests in maths and English taken by 600,000 pupils every May – after a quarter of primary schools boycotted the exams last year.Bew's team of headteachers found that the writing test does not allow children to demonstrate their imagination because it looks for formulaic answers.
  • The Bew review recommends that teachers assess creative writing throughout the school year, instead of in a single test.
  • The review team also urged the government to ensure that schools are judged over three years of results rather than one and given a rolling average in league tables.
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  • The National Association of Head Teachers "cautiously welcomed" Bew's report.Russell Hobby, general secretary of the NAHT, said teacher assessment for writing would "reduce drilling and give both parents and secondary schools a far more accurate picture of pupils' achievement".
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PAKISTAN: Schools Rise From the Rubble - IPS ipsnews.net - 0 views

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PAKISTAN schools Education Under Attack violence conflict

shared by Teachers Without Borders on 29 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • PESHAWAR, Jun 26, 2011 (IPS) - Violence in the tribal areas of northwest Pakistan has kept students away from school, in some areas for at least two years. Now, officials are trying to make up for lost time by holding classes even under tents or trees.
  • "We are overwhelmed to be back in school," said third grade student Jaweria over the phone from Orakzai. The Taliban bombed her school in August last year, she said, leaving students idle.
  • Orakzai Agency is one of seven "agencies" or tribal units that constitute Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). FATA is the war-torn region between Afghanistan and the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) in northwest Pakistan, which has become the base of the Taliban and Al- Qaeda.
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  • In Orakzai alone, militants blew up nearly 80 educational institutions, including several schools from primary to high school for boys and girls, and one Degree College for men. Last February, militants destroyed the lone Girls’ Degree College, whose 235 students continue holding classes atop the debris.
  • The move will put some 4,500 students back on track with their schooling, and employ 192 teachers as well.
  • "The students study under the shade of trees, while they use the tents to store their bags. This is because there is no electricity inside the tents while outside the students enjoy a good atmosphere," said teacher Shahidullah Khan. At the moment, the students use mats in lieu of school desks, which will be provided in the future, he added.
  • Khan said the FATA has 5,478 schools and colleges, hundreds of which have been damaged, depriving some 255,000 students of education. The government was forced to shut down another 18 due to violence, leaving more than 300 teachers jobless.
  • In Mohmand Agency, the militants flattened 108 schools affecting almost 90,000 students. The authorities said they have reopened 44 boys’ and 12 girls’ schools in tents, while the rest are being reconstructed.
  • These government-run schools are the only source of modern education for students in the FATA. They offer classes from the first to the 10th grade, but students have to source their own books and other school materials. Gibran Khan is another beneficiary of the tent school that was established on May 30. "I was sad when our school was destroyed in January this year but now I am happy," said Khan, a 12-year-old fifth grade student.
  • Statistics for female literacy in the FATA are also disturbing. Neighbouring KP province has a female literacy rate of 30 percent, but the rate is FATA is a mere three percent. The national literacy rate for females is 54 percent.
  • "We have launched a programme in which we are going to reconstruct damaged schools. The government of Japan is assisting in rebuilding 80 schools in FATA," said Ghafoor Khan, education officer of the FATA Secretariat.
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Teacher Blog: A Sobering Reflection at Year's End - 0 views

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    Our teacher blogger relates the school year to his wild collegiate days on the beaches of Daytona...
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Uganda to create jobs for teachers in South Sudan | ReliefWeb - 1 views

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shared by Teachers Without Borders on 20 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • October 19, 2011 (KAMPALA) – Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni says his country will send teachers to South Sudan as an effort to help the new nation build its human capacity and recover from decades of conflict that have badly affected literacy and the education system. Speaking at the opening of a leaders retreat for his ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) on Monday in the town of Kyanykwanzi, president Museveni said this will aid job creation for his citizens.
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BBC News - Energy savings 'could pay for a teacher' - 0 views

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shared by Teachers Without Borders on 19 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Schools could save the equivalent of a teacher's salary by switching out the lights and taking energy saving measures, a charity says.
  • The Carbon Trust says UK secondary schools could save up to £21,500 in energy bills if they took measures. These include switching off lights and computers, turning heating down, installing insulation and more efficient lighting.
  • It says: "Simple measures such as switching off lights and installing more efficient heating could help the average secondary school save £21,500 in energy bills - almost equal to the annual salary of a newly qualified teacher."
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Education International - Spain: Unions march for public education - 0 views

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shared by Teachers Without Borders on 21 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • However, the brutal attack on the public education system includes a 12-15 per cent decrease in education budgets, the addition of two more contact hours each week for teachers, and the dismissal of 13,000 teachers. Cuts will mostly affect education diversity programmes and complementary services; while the introduction of a public early childhood education system for children aged 0-3 has been put on hold, leaving it as a private provision.
  • Commenting on the crisis in Spain, Fred van Leeuwen said: “Quality public education for all is a guarantee of peaceful co-existence and a source of social progress. Now, more than ever, the struggle against school failure and dropout should be a priority. Without investment in education, social inequalities will jeopardise the country’s progress for the next decades.”
Martyn Steiner

A review of research on PBL - 3 views

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classroom education PBL project-based learning research review OER TWB

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    A very even-handed review of existing (as of year 2000) literature on PBL. Concludes - in simple terms - that PBL is more popular with students, and (tentatively)that they learn better through it, but that it is hard for the teachers to do. 
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Expert Talks: Examples of project-based learning in the classroom - YouTube - 0 views

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    Chris Dede, Professor in Learning Technologies at Harvards Graduate School of Education, and Michael Geisen, 2008 National Teacher of the Year, discuss Examples of project-based learning in the classroom.
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Experts Tackling Education in Africa | Africa | English - 0 views

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    How do you fix education in Africa, where students have far fewer opportunities than their counterparts in other parts of the world? There are two schools of thought on the subject: do you invest bottom up? Or top down? The statistics are hard to ignore.  Sub-Saharan Africa is the lowest-ranked region in the world on the United Nations' education development index. The U.N. education agency (UNESCO) says a quarter of all children in sub-Saharan Africa do not go to school, and account for 43 percent of the world's out-of-school children. Meantime, the African Union (AU) has said the continent will need to recruit more than 2 million new teachers by 2015, just three years from now. While the U.N. and the AU agree on the scope of the education challenges facing the continent, they are from two separate schools of thought on how to remedy the situation.
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Hechinger Report | What the U.S. and Chinese school systems have in common: Inequality,... - 0 views

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    Despite these differences of conceit, the American and Chinese education systems share one common, defining characteristic: They are both plagued by gross inequalities and rampant segregation. In the United States, these injustices fall largely along racial and class lines: poor, minority students are more likely to attend highly segregated schools; their schools are more likely to suffer from a lack of resources; and their teachers are more likely to be inexperienced.
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ASCD Express 7.12 - When Teaching Gets Tough: Smart Ways to Reclaim Your Game - 1 views

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shared by Teachers Without Borders on 19 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • The following excerpts are from Allen Mendler's forthcoming ASCD book When Teaching Gets Tough: Smart Ways to Reclaim Your Game. Are there days when you feel overwhelmed by some combination of unruly or poorly motivated students, parents who either give you a hard time or simply aren't to be found, and never-ending classroom distractions? Do you feel frustrated by burdensome meetings that accomplish little but eat up a ton of time? Are you getting tired pleading and scavenging for basic school supplies?
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