ARCHIVES: INTERNATIONAL NEWS ROUNDUP 2008-11

March 2011: Canada: Weatheradios; First Nations education; falling through the cracks; organic farming education; China: How Much Does School Matter? Zhou Hongyu; Europe: EC calls for universal pre-school education; Indonesia: Equal access; Australian support; Ireland: Primary teacher job fears; Italy: English language skills; Japan: Primary school English; school rankings; Middle East: Technology to play big role; New Zealand: Post-earthquake schooling; NZ student top of the world in matsh; funding; Rugby league and literacy; National Standards; Scotland: New generation of dedicated teachers; South Africa: HIV testing in schools; Turkey: Ismail Gunduz; UK: GCSE failers to retake English and maths; Women heads; special needs care budgets; standards in Wales; wheelchairs; autism; teacher training; teacher strikes; national schools offer day; USA: Teacher blogs about lazy students; linking teacher pay to student performance; cheating; missing targets; Gates spends millions on promoting school reform; bullying; Vietnam: Tuition fees; school upgrades … read more

February 2011: Canada: Financial literacy, combating poverty; mental illness; Eritrea: Female participation; Germany: “Shocking” state of education system; Ghana: “Misinformation” of teachers; Kenya: Drought effects; New Zealand: Te reo Maori; ECE cuts; National Standards; school debating; Nigeria: Primary school teachers strike; Saudi Arabia: Students call for education overhaul; Scotland: Four day school week; UK: Rich-poor gap; Creationist free school; free school funding lacks transparency; arts subjects choices narrowed; Gove failing schools; Baccalaurate threatens Religious Education; Why do Chinese children do so well? Pre-school readers better in teens; skipping lessons to protest; pupils strike over teacher sacking; class sizes; special needs spending cuts; school design; USA: Grading the education President; donors and Catholic schools; creationism; replacing principals; emaotional learning; male teachers; whacking kids; fighting obesity; bullying; web tools … read more

November 2010: Canada: High school hacker; Dropout rate plummets; France: ‘Brain drain’ to US; Muslim demands; Ghana: Conflicts affecting schooling; India: Building ties with US, Canada & Britain; Ireland: Literacy & numeracy; Japan: Group solution for bullying; classroom discipline; New Zealand: Area teachers’ pay; mistreatment of private school children; noise health risks; national standards; early childhood cost cutting; Northern Ireland: Raising school start age; Catholic education threat; Russia: Putin, Medvedev double education expenditure; UK: Dull and uninspiring lessons; spending cuts; student protests; teaching & funding overhaul planned; what makes good teaching? physical education; soldier turns teacher; Gove focus on traditional school values; ‘back to the future’ reforms; Gove outlines goals; teaching the Whitehall way; USA: Sugary drinks; China now more students in US than India; Cathleen Black replaces Joel Klein; planned charter school too evangelical; Kevin Donnelly gives the US his views on Australian education; failure to stop bullying a form of discrimination … read more

September 2010: Afghanistan: Struggling to improve education; Canada: CCL report fears 3rd World status; Quebec’s system for English language schools; fundraising for text books unacceptable; China: 9 years compulsory education for next 10 years; Denmark: School classes filled to the brim; Israel: Arabic mandatory in some schools; Netanyahu approves new classrooms; Kyrgyzstan: Too scared for school; New Zealand: Compulsory Maori in schools; lack of supoport for national standards; secondary teachers strike; calls for paradigm shift; Philippines: Students, teachers oppose extending basic education; Scotland: Curriculum for excellence; 1 in 9 schools ‘half empty’; Singapore: More PE, art and music in primary schools; South Africa: Elimination of gender disparity; UK: Absenteeism & truancy; reading to dogs; Welsh training; rich/poor gap; ‘unfair’ state school system; giving up French; Barnardo’s report slams inequity; science undermined by faith schools; voctaional education; poor pupil payments; ‘academies’ plan not supported; USA: ’21st century’ skills; social and emotional learning; absenteeism; teacher evaluation; online learning; Arne Duncan pushes school reforms; benefits of sleep; cash for school attendance & parent events … read more

July 2010: Global: UN handbook on education for children in conflict; Brazil: Public education improves; Canada: $20 million for science education in Africa; China: Parents demand transparency in school placements; Language lessons deepen ethnic ties; Indonesia: ‘Education for All’; Jordan: Teachers’ children receive full scholarships; Liberia: US millions for girls’ education; Malaysia: Mandarin, Tamil to be taught at national primary schools; Mexico: Schools teach lessons in survival; New Zealand: National Standards; Classroom Behaviour; Student Achievement; Nigeria: Instructional Materials in Schools; Return of Mission Schools; Philippines: Parents object to sex education; South Africa: Education summit ahead of WC final; Tanzania: Students Urged to Help Solve Country’s Problems; Thailand: $3.4 bln for 64 education projects; UK: Behaviour & discipline; specialist primary science teachers; CCTV; Computer language translator; free places in private schools; private schools charity status; Gove apology; (10 items); USA: Online bullying; last day of rubber rooms; schools on financial brink; special education costs; national certification; Fremont High’s grand experiment; conservatives aim at federal role; the value of arts education; teacher bailout … read more

June 2010: Australia: Education Minister Becomes Australia’s First Female Prime Minister; Canada: Aboriginal learning; fewer teachers; China: Minority languages; education reform plan; India: Illegal educational institutions; Israel: Segregated education protests; Kenya: Learning Disaster in Rift Valley; Ministry May Block New Schools; New Zealand: Standards; Douglas Bill ‘Out of Touch’; tin-pot third-world strategy; Nigeria: Science Week; Saudi Arabia: Women pursue sciences; Scotland: Ban on helicopter arrivals; South Africa: Mother Tongue in Primary Education; UK: Teaching of history; bullying; French is useless; schools fall foul of Ofsted; Half of schools ‘not good’; New science GCSEs ‘not tough enough’; Brightest pupils need more support;22 June 1956: Higher I.Q. in children of the atomic age; Doubts over Swedish-style schools; Schools need local authorities; Primary pupil numbers ‘growing’; Uruguay: One Laptop per Child; USA: Performance-Pay Shows No Achievement Edge; States Receive Reading List; National Curriculum; Social studies exams to go; School Without Walls; Students’ Views on Citizenship; Breaking the habit of skipping school; Chicago Public Schools’ tenure attack; Zambia: Zambia makes learning of local language compulsory in primary education; Zimbabwe: No Chance to Prepare for the Future … read more

May 2010: Afghanistan: School tries to bring music back; China: Attacks on children; India: Making school more student-centric; New Zealand: Transient students; budget; schools need parents; early intervention for troubled students; Samoa: School sport ban; Scotland: school meals; Solomon Islands: Art education; UK: Bullying; homework; league tables; school building program; money + class = power; new minister upsets teachers; employers pick up pieces of school failure; science & technology skills shortage; music the key; takeaways near schools; USA: Teacher evaluations; Arizona reins in ethnic studies; bullying; longer schools days; attainment rises across the board; new teacher training; Texas promotes God and guns in school; religion & state schools; environmental education; baccalaureate; sentenced to Shakespeare; three positive trends; algebra helps … read more

April 2010: Global: Two billion laptops may not be enough; Canada: Making students better people; full-day kindergarten curriculum; China: China & US teach each other; high school students under stress; Finland: Why do Finland’s schools get the best results? Japan: Textbook density; national achievement tests reviewed; helping other nations; New Zealand: Bullying; public/privatre partnerships; national standards confusion; distance learning; Saudi Arabia: Illiteracy drops significantly; Scotland: Warning of new school curriculum chaos; South Korea: Girls good at languages, boys at math; Violence against teachers; weekend schools; heads reject tests; teachers boycott tests; USA: School reform; Bridge Da Gap; tying teacher evaluation to student achievement; cyber high school; how phys ed transformed a school; rewarding schools for innovation; future math teachers; school curriculum vote; no cure for bad schools; benefits of preschool; yoga at school; homework; recipe for turning around a struggling school … read more

March 2010: GLOBAL: Rise in terror attacks; CANADA: Simplified report cards; CHINA: Pledge to ensure fair, high quality education; HAITI: Schools in ruins; HONG KONG: Religious freedom; INDONESIA: Chinese face discrimination; JAMAICA: More men wanted in classroom; KENYA: Special education boost; NAMIBIA: Learning from the Finnish; NEW ZEALAND: Schools rethink homework, roads but not education, Ministry of Education reviewing support; PAKISTAN: School bombing kills students; SCOTLAND: Teachers trained in web safety, back Curriculum for Excellence delay; SINGAPORE: 20% of curriculum ICT; SOUTH KOREA: Education spending, robot technology, teacher evaluation; SPAIN: Anti-Semitism in schools; TANZANIA: Pregnant teens forced out of school; UK: Parents and teachers bid to run new schools, teacher qualifications ‘too low’, another great debate, working mums and homework, secret of a good school, independent schools get tough over fees, teaching ‘under-rated’, more men applying to be teachers, pupils bored by factory schools; USA: Myths about paying good teachers, kids online, supportive leadership, fitness may boost grades, rights law in education, math-teaching crisis, Kansas City closing schools, national technology plan; VIETNAM: Male kindergarten teacher; ZIMBABWE: People must help their former schools … read more

February 2010: GLOBAL: GFC sets back education worldwide; ASIA: Attendance tracking; CANADA: Parents removing students from low-ranked schools; GERMANY: Teaching Islam; IRELAND: Inclusive education; MALAYSIA: Towards quality education; NEW ZEALAND: PM defends standards, dealing with ed dysfunction, teacher relationships; SCOTLAND: Virtual classroom, teachers told to stay out of playground fights; SINGAPORE: Teacher academies; SOUTH KOREA: Text-messaging parents; UK: Free books, citizenship teaching, teaching boys to meditate, using dance & fashion to teach maths, protecting teachers from faith schools, texting helps spelling, curriculum design v teaching, race equality program, bullying teacher sacked, mobile phones increase exam cheating, children’s rights, holiday fines, disabled students waiting for equipment; USA: States compete for ed aid, Obama seeks $4billion, teacher layoffs, online teaching, NY city standards drop, top teachers leaving, turning around underperforming schools, teacher evaluation problems, rethinking phone bans, why boys fail, bullying, FB student expelled; VIETNAM: Teachers unable to teach … read more

December 2009: GLOBAL: Education for Sustainable Development, Education key to inclusion for street children; CANADA: Financial literacy, K-12 schools, action learning, deeper learning; FINLAND: Immigrant pupils; INDIA: Too few teachers; INDONESIA: Teachers blogging; IRELAND: Rural school for global IT project; LEBANON: English language gaining ground; NEW ZEALAND: Public-private partnerships, Positive Behaviour for Learning Action Plan, principals deeply concerned; SCOTLAND: Class sizes; UK: Making children media savvy, co-ed but separate, case for and against single sex classes, benefits for maths & science teachers, slang in schools; USA: High school teachers’ priorities, self-harming students, test scores, how to turn schools around, teacher wage deferrals; VIETNAM: When principals are good teachers … read more

November 2009: EL SISTEMA: An education phenomenon goes global: Australia, Canada, England, Scotland, USA, The Film; CANADA: Closing half-empty schools; FINLAND: Social differentiation of schools; INDIA: Protect students from overloaded school-bags; IRELAND: Teachers trying to make maths add up; ISRAEL: Hopping on the anti-obesity bandwagon; KUWAIT: Teachers may strike; LEBANON: Promote social cohesion; NEW ZEALAND: Mentor programs; THAILAND: Right To Play fosters new learning experience; UK: School starting age, grammar, allegations against teachers, Teacher of the Year, parent backlash against discipline, truancy, parents turned into school gate cheats, equal opportunity; URUGUAY: Laptops for primary school students; USA: 21st century skills, bullying, teacher-student cyber talk, youne people stressed, charter schools success; VIETNAM: Keeping students at school … read more

September 2009: BRAZIL: Islam Missing in Brazilian Textbooks; CANADA: Science teacher survey, School test results raise red flag, Alberta schools told to give back $44M, sports cuts; CHINA: Chongqing Federation of Trade Unions subsidizes 20,000 needy students; HONDURAS: Teachers killed in violent repression; INDIA: Teacher education, fake education agents; IRAQ: Iraq Rebuilds Higher Education Abroad; ISRAEL: One-third of outstanding schools are from Arab sector; KUWAIT: Swine flu in schools; NEW ZEALAND: Expulsions and suspensions, Schooling by Skype, closing residential schools; QATAR: Youth voice their hopes and fears; SAUDI ARABIA: Need for job-oriented courses emphasized; SINGAPORE: US, Other Education Officials Get Lesson in School Success; UK: State schools may be run for profit, Fewer primary children reach English standard, bullying, ‘bogus’ foreign students, future of free education, trainee teachers quitting, league tables, A-levels, boys miss writing target at 7, rural schools to close, Teachers’ workloads; USA: Special Education Parent Information, Toughen the Tests, Gates Foundation funds Memphis schools, don’t use data against teachers, what Ted Kennedy meant to education, teaching mentoring, quality teachers improve their colleagues, parents upset over Obama speech, counting too much on calculators; VENEZUELA: Violence Erupts Over Proposed Education Reform; VIETNAM: Student splashes teacher with acid, teacher recruitment … read more

July 2009: CANADA: Video surveillance, bus driver rules; GLOBAL: UNESCO Global Education Digest 2009; INDIA: woes of Indian stduents in Australia, teacher profile; INDONESIA: Producers want badminton included in school curriculum; JAPAN: nutrition classes, post-earthquake building education revolution; MALAYSIA: English teachers in rural areas to get extra incentives; NEW ZEALAND: Chemistry Olympiad, Hong Kong students in Christchurch, exam rules breaches fall, China-NZ FTA brings students; RUSSIA: Secular ethics and religion to teach values in Russian schools; SAUDI ARABIA: English as medium of instruction; UNITED KINGDOM: the gender gap, new primary science curriculum under fire, playground games disappearing, gifted and poor, how to be a green school, home schooling, clip-on tie switch, recruiting male primary teahcers, too much change, Singapore’s success; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: teacher evaluation, ‘cons’ destroying public education, student test scores, draft common academic standards … read more

June 2009: CANADA: New education subsidy to enable First Nations, Metis and Inuit adults to become teachers; EGYPT: Aussie Muslim School Gets Fatal Blow; EUROPE: Teacher effectiveness hampered by lack of incentives and bad behaviour in the classroom; INDIA: Adressing systemic malpractice, attacks on students in Australia; KENYA: School Doesn’t Make Better Leaders; KOREA: Survey shows 6 out of 10 teachers suffer from occupational illnesses; MALAYSIA: Teachers’ forum urges Commonwealth governments to invest in developing the teaching profession; NEW ZEALAND: QPEC welcomes criticism of integrated school fees; NIGERIA: Nigerian and UK teachers swap notes; SINGAPORE: Singapore to Hold International Education Roundtable; SOUTH AFRICA: Language Policy ‘Discriminates’; UNITED KINGDOM: Ofsted finds schools failing on new secondary curriculum + 7 more items; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Bullying Top Issue for School Safety Chief + 7 more items … read more

May 2009: AFGHANISTAN: Despite Dangers, Afghan Girls Determined To Learn; CANADA: Teens teaching teachers technology, himan rights legislation issues; CHINA: student mental health; INDIA: Sparing/not sparing the rod; INDONESIA: The missing link in Indonesias public school curriculum; NEW ZEALAND: Budget blues for education, boys lag developed world; PAKISTAN: Religious schools get scrutiny; RWANDA: dropout rate rising, new curricula introduced; SOUTH AFRICA: ‘Rent-a-Cop’ for Cape Schools; TIMOR LESTE: Education and Cultural Ties Strengthened; UNITED KINGDOM: Michelle Obama, teacher-pupil contact, creative curriculum, “19th century” schooling, parent prosecuted for lying to obtain school placement, student meditation, bad behaviour, history education falls, lack of autism support, specialist schools; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Students protest teacher cuts, Gates Foundation, school-community partnerships, testing primary teachers for maths, biosciences education falls, budgets cuts hit California schools, role of rap, Obama commits $5 billion to schools … read more

March 2009: CANADA: Oakville parents claim French immersion bias; EUROPE: Public debate on the future of education in Europe; GERMANY: School sheriffs keep eye on problem pupils in Berlin; INDIA: US seeks applications from Indian teachers to study English, Class 8-9 students caught answering under-graduate exam; ISRAEL: Teachers hold one-hour strike to protest high school violence; NETHERLANDS: A parents’ guide to education in the Netherlands; NEW ZEALAND: School system fails in its approach to reading, Released reports confirm school funding woes, Behaviour Summit Overlooks Bullying; SINGAPORE: Why Singapore is another model for teaching excellence; SPAIN: Teaching English in Spain; SWEDEN: Swedish study shows fish may be brain food for teenage boys; UNITED KINGDOM: Schools may try to boycott Sats + 6 more items; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: School sports & extra-curriculars on chopping block + 10 more items; VIETNAM: Kindergarten kids learn gender equality … read more

December 2008: INTERNATIONAL: A sense of urgency underscores Eighth High Level Group meeting on Education For All; Beyond the Diploma Mills; ‘Educate girls to stop population soaring’; Inequality undermining education opportunities for millions of children; INDIA: Bill plans to ban school entry test; NEW ZEALAND: Teaching kids money skills goes down well; Schools financial troubles signal need for system review; Unicef report demands government policy responses; PERU: Laptops May Change The Way Rural Peru Learns; SAUDI ARABIA: The joke of private schools; UNITED KINGDOM: Balls to hold agony aunt ‘summit’; Agony aunts to cheer up UK’s children; Boost for speech and language; Dramatic improvement in science and maths; Schools told reading is top priority; Study indicates white parents ‘show less interest in education’; 10 per cent of pupils fail to master maths; Single-sex schools ‘are the future’; Pupils’ excuses keep up with technology; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Arne Duncan: a reformer as U.S. education secretary; Obama names new US education secretary; Who Will Obama Pick as Secretary of Education?; US Research Report: Special Education in America; But Are the Schools Really Getting Better?; School Finance Systems Need Overhaul, Study Says; Personalized Learning Puts Students In A Class Of Their Own; USA High Schools Add Electives to Cultivate Interests; Project Learning Serves the Most At-Risk Students … read more

October 2008: DENMARK: Copenhagen Conference; EUROPE: What should our schools be like in the 21st Century?; INDIA: Ministers to decide on providing hot meals to schoolchildren; IRAQ: UNESCO and Iraqi Ministry of Education launch educational TV channel; IRELAND: 100m funding for fee-paying schools; NEW ZEALAND: School funding on the election agenda, Revolutionary guide for schools; NIGERIA: Strategies for Achieving Education for All By 2015; RWANDA: Global Higher Education Summit Opens; SOUTH AFRICA: adapting to a national curriculum; UNITED KINGDOM: End under-achievement and improve mental health, Primary school truancy, School hands out iPods, Philosophy in Year Three, Minister eyes New York’s way of grading schools, Row over ‘appalling’ GCSE results, Basic emotional education, Parents blamed for naughty children, National tests scrapped after marking chaos, A test that deserved to fail, Maybe league tables should be next?, Children with learning difficulties need ‘safe’ areas, Ofcom inquiry into TV and toddlers, Education expert says school fail black students, Days of children reading books ‘are numbered’, Schools to be judged on how they boost wellbeing, The burden of homework is too heavy, Schools given advice on preventing extremism, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Financial sector’s loss could spell gain for teaching, Dress code will cover city teachers & school staff, Growth Data for Teachers Under Review, States’ K-12 Efforts Feeling Budget Sting, Dallas district fires 375 teachers, Early teen drug, alcohol use ups sex and behaviour risks, High-school Social Skills Predict Better Earnings Than Test Scores … read more

September 2008: INTERNATIONAL: Literacy is the Best Remedy; Australia: Student visa assessment levels changed; CANADA: B.C. government lags on seismic upgrades of schools; JAPAN: Oita school term starts in strained atmosphere; NEW ZEALAND: Helping NZ become the World’s Most Literate Nation; Government regulation restricts learning; Public schools should be publicly owned; PAKISTAN: Taliban Violently Campaigns Against Girls’ Education; UNITED KINGDOM: Top exam board asks schools to destroy book containing knife poem, Children of the revolution, Weak teachers ‘put off pupils’, New pressure over faith schools, School bans pupils doing cartwheels; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Providing a World-Class Education ‘A Moral Obligation,’ Obama Tells Throng, VP Choice Backed School Funding Overhaul, Better education through innovation, Texas truant students to be tracked by GPS anklets, First Phase Of Reforms Launched In Hartford Schools, A Teacher on the Front Line as Faith and Science Clash, Slowing speech eases child’s ability to listen, Starting Kindergarten Later Gives Students Only A Fleeting Edge, Study Finds, Piling On The Homework: Does It Work For Everyone?, More schools offering Chinese; educators see it as a language of growing importance, Public School officials look at funding options … read more

August 2008: INTERNATIONAL: Underprivileged children: doubly disadvantaged at school; CANADA: Education one of Canada’s strong suits, Canadian Safe School Network; NEW ZEALAND: Poverty report recommendations must be taken on board, New Zealand-Chile exchanges arranged, Where are Labour and National’s education policies?; NIGERIA: Report indicates high figure of unqualified teachers; SPAIN: Divorce may lend to increasing quality of education for children in Spain; UGANDA: A Headmaster’s view of strikes in high schools; UNITED KINGDOM: Fairer league tables ‘no help to pupils’, More school means fewer teenage mothers, Tories attack school poverty gap; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: The school bully: does it run in the family?, Kids who sleep poorly at risk for being overweight, Do computers help students to learn better?, If dress code doesn’t suit teens, school district will, Education should lift all children, Students, parents like single-gender programs, School board issues social networking warning, Preparing creative and critical thinkers, I know what you did last math class, Budget crunch expected to increase primary class sizes in, Creativity is important but neglected … read more

July 2008: USA: Area school officials disagree over need for conflict resolvers; UK: Schools of thought: teach children philosophy, experts urge; UK: Running the show; USA: Zero Tolerance: The School Woodshed; USA: Could Standard Grading Practices Be Counterproductive? USA: Technology brings ‘new P.E.’ to schools; USA: Buzz Lightyear Launches Students Into Space; UK: More parents are keen to send children to private school; UK: Private school demand is highest for five years despite big fee rises; UK: Cuts leave thousands of schools facing toughest squeeze in a decade; USA: Reading First Program Doesn’t Help Pupils ‘Get it’ Are other factors skewing results? USA: Scholastic Report: Kids Still Read for Fun – Teens, Less So; USA: American Association of University Women Sees No Educational Crisis for Boys (But others do); UK: Functionality risks cultural and intellectual impoverishment; USA: Instruction Drives Construction … Or Should; USA: Put Understanding First … read more

June 2008: USA: Parental involvement boosts student achievement; USA: Senator Barack Obama Centres Education; UK: the positive impacts of integrated services on children, young people and their families; USA: ‘Systems of Care’ Found to Benefit Troubled Youths; Canada: Canada examines abuses of church-run schools; UK: University’s exam to counter A-level grade inflation; UK: Universities Offer Downloadable Lectures; UK: Private schools plan kite-mark quality scheme; UK: Most teachers lack degree in their subject; UK: Government failing to meet maths teaching target; UK: Don’t knock exams – they’re a test of character … read more

May 2008: USA: Improving Schools Requires New Thinking about School Leadership; USA: Arts education described as vital: State work force needs creativity; USA: Homework and Families; USA: Assessment Through the Student’s Eyes; USA: Essential Qualities of Math Teaching Remain Unknown; UK – USA: Student Engagement Found to Rise as Class Size Falls; USA: But Smaller Classes Don’t Close Learning Gap for Low Income Students, Study Finds; USA: Washington state begins to revise science education standards; USA: After school can be key to student’s success: a seamless approach to the learning day; USA: Senate panel proposes no penalty for teaching creationism; NZ: $500 a year: rising cost of free education; USA: Research Shows Quality Time Seems Stacked In Favor of Firstborns; USA: Good pay, steady work, few takers as young people spurn the trades; UK: Schools may be judged on teenage pregnancy rates and drug problems; UK: Only class war on [private] schools can rid us of this unhinged ruling class; UK: This is no magic bullet for teaching children to read … read more

March 2008: India: Spare the rod, keep child in school; Japan: New cram school blurs public and private line; New Zealand: It’s ‘presence’ that counts in classroom; Pakistan: Cell phone ban in schools sends mixed signals; South Africa: Will School Loyalty Pledge become Compulsory?; UK: A third of teachers ‘struggle with technology’; UK schools worst in Europe for bullying; UK: University dropout steady at 22%; UK: Minister defends testing and league tables; UK: PM announces new arts apprenticeships strategy; UK: Universities get 105m to develop new courses; USA: Louisiana Seeks Partners to Take Over Failing Schools; USA: Left in dark over No Child Left Behind; USA: School Racism Exercise Draws Heat; USA: District of Columbia Launches Weekend School Program … read more