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A conversation with Eric Schwarz about the evolution of citizen schools
I had a recent conversation with Eric Schwarz about the evolution of Citizen Schools. Eric is the founder of Citizen Schools and author of The Opportunity Equation: How Citizen Teachers Are Combating the Achievement Gap in America’s Schools.
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The school day: Singapore
With school starting again here in the United States, I’ve been thinking back to my children’s experiences at the end of the last school year in Finland that we chronicled last June. To get another perspective on what school is like in another country, I asked our colleague here at IEN, Paul Chua, to talk with me a bit about his son’s experiences in 2nd grade in Singapore.
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Azerbaijan: kids start school with lengthy family-motorcades, cops complain
What parent would not want to make their child’s first day of school memorable?
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Regional Conference of Educators „Learning Through Inquiry“
“I explore, discover, wonder, question… the world around me” How to organize scientific research with children? How to take teaching process out of the classrooms – in the forest, city […]
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Open-air classrooms still order of the day
IN a small ‘classroom’ outside the northern town of Rundu, a group of pupils try their best to concentrate on the day’s lesson while shielding themselves from the heat.
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Tajikistan: Big brother has eyes in the classroom and beyond
Mehrinisso loves teaching, but finds the closed-circuit surveillance cameras in her classroom unsettling.
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Students discover a mummy during an expedition in coastal Chile
Ten student members from the Academy of Archaeology in municipal school E -26 “America” have had an unforgettable experience.
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Can technology transform education in Trinidad & Tobago?
Trinidad and Tobago’s Ministry of Education recently co-hosted the second Virtual Educa Caribbean forum, a two-day workshop which explored different ways in which Information and Communications Technology (ICT) can have an impact on education.
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Critical citizenship for critical times
Despite the educational system that stresses memorization and discourages questioning and creativity, people in Egypt, with many different educational backgrounds, displayed skepticism of the Mubarak regime.
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Tongues untied
After years of delay, an effort to teach Romani in Serbian schools may be gaining steam.
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