Israel had destroyed literally all universities in Gaza and damaged over 400 schools. Lest we forget also Israel's deliberate targeting of university professors and academics.
In a letter to the Guardian Toby Wood raises an interesting point:
Is the profit/surplus-driven model of education (the Academy model) worsening the problems of retaining teachers & the thrusting of teaching assistants into their role(s)?
This may be a single case but its not implausible that it represents a wider trend.
Another case of the ideology of markets corrupting & damaging a vital public service?
Dana is excited to be attending lessons after her education was cut short due to the war in Gaza.
"I am a little Palestinian girl, I have a good heart, I have a good spirit, and harm no-one," she sings to her peers, as they clap for her performance.
The class holds extra significance for Dana after she was recently released from hospital following an Israeli air strike.
She was injured in the attack, which also killed her brother.
Students continue to protest at campuses across the country, despite the risk of arrest. Some schools now threaten demonstrators with disciplinary action, while others promise the opposite.
Ohio purchases ‘shoot houses’ to use for armed teacher training~will operate “shoot houses” so school staff armed with guns can practice facing an active shooter. #Ohio#schools#guns#Shooting#SchoolShooting#education
While teaching assistants have a place in education, budget cuts & teacher shortages, have led to them being used as the 'troops' of de-skilling - certainly TAs are well-meaning & compassionate people, but they are being forced into a situation where they are complicit with the failures of Govt. education policy.
This shift in the use of TAs was always likely and the cost(s) are clear: they cannot cover teaching & assist children with special needs as well!
The #DepEd is just full of smartasses really, they thought that by moving classes in 2020 to August they can minimize the disruption in education brought by #COVID.
It did minimize it alright, but only for 2020 and 2021. Eventually we will have to return to face-to-face classes, which we did starting 2022 IIRC. Their hubris in keeping children in classes no matter what didn't make them think that we are a tropical country; that their foresight-less act means there will still be classes in April and May, the hottest months in this climate. They're now forced to move it back to June which they will have to do gradually. This brings more disruption as it means students will only get a one-month long vacation instead of the usual two, and the moving schedules mean planning school events far ahead become less certain.
Very cool DepEd. Truly the brightest and bestest of the country. :kokoro_yes: :reimu_sigh:
Hopes that OFSTED would be required to move away from its toxic system of single word summary judgements on schools have been dashed...
This will not end pressure for the reform of OFSTED but show how entrenched its culture of summary judgement & corrosive methods are.
Whether Labour will be any more sympathetic to the campaigners is unclear, but change needs to come if we are to find a better way to support schools to improve.
#EdTech#Schools#Education: "Schools spend a lot of money on edtech, and most of the time it’s a waste of their limited funds. According to the Edtech Evidence Exchange, educators estimate that “85% of edtech tools are poor fits or poorly implemented”, indicating very weak returns for the $25 billion or more annually spent on edtech in the US alone. The problem is that school procurement of edtech is rarely based on rigorous or independent evidence. The Edtech Evidence Exchange is one example of a new type of organization in education that is aiming to address this problem, by constructing an evidence base to support edtech spending decisions.
In a new paper just published in Research in Education, Carlos Ortegon, Matthias Decuypere and I conceptualize these new edtech evidence intermefiary organizations as edtech brokers. Edtech brokers perform roles such as guiding local schools in “evidence-based” procurement, adoption, and pedagogical use of edtech, and have the mission to support teachers and school authorities to modernize in safe, reliable, and cost-effective ways. Edtech brokers are appearing around the world yet they have not, as yet, captured much critical attention. We kicked off our project on edtech brokers a couple of years ago, with Carlos Ortegon taking the lead for his doctoral research and lead-authoring the paper entitled “Mediating educational technologies: Edtech brokering between schools, academia, governance and industry” as the first major output."
Parents unhappy with the way BPS changed exam school admissions ask Supreme Court to weigh in - two months after court refused to hear similar Virginia case
As student protesters get arrested, they risk being banned from campus too (www.npr.org)
Students continue to protest at campuses across the country, despite the risk of arrest. Some schools now threaten demonstrators with disciplinary action, while others promise the opposite.