Everything you need to know about teaching and learning in one podcast. Top Class, the OECD Education Podcast, interviews leading educators, researchers and policy experts about the big issues facing education systems around the world. Disclaimer: The opinions expressed and arguments employed on the "TopClass" podcast and the recordings contained therein do not necessarily represent the official views of the OECD, its member countries, or non-members who have participated in any related work ...
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The Assignment is a podcast that focuses on the most important education issues of the day in Mississippi. If you are an educator, policy maker, a mom or dad, join Rachel Canter and Jason Dean as they span the range from early childhood education to college and beyond. Whatever the question, the answer begins with education.
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Deculturalization and attempts at Americanization, and segregation of Latino students still today as the result of those policies Cover art photo provided by Bia Andrade on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@biawashere
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How to ensure quality early childhood education and care for all
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40:32The early years of a child's life are crucial for their development. Falling behind early can mean never catching up. How can countries ensure lasting benefits from early childhood education and care? In this episode of Top Class, Stephanie Jones, the Gerald S. Lesser Professor in Early Child Development at Harvard University, and Professor Henrik …
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How to help disengaged teenagers learn
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31:14How can you help disengaged teenagers rediscover their passion for learning? In this episode of Top Class, Rebecca Winthrop, a Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution, discusses ideas from the new book she has co-authored called ‘The Disengaged Teen: Helping Kids Learn Better, Feel Better, and L…
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LA wildfires: What educators can do when disaster strikes
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37:47Wildfires raging in Los Angeles have destroyed thousands of homes and forced the closure of hundreds of schools. As communities try to rebuild following the destruction, including the burning down of schools, what can teachers do to support students? In this episode of Top Class, Developmental-Behavioural Paediatrician David Schonfeld, Director of …
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What skills are needed for the AI and green jobs era?
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45:45As technologies transform businesses, what critical skills are needed to succeed in the workforce of the future? With artificial intelligence, the green transition, globalisation and much more all impacting the world of work, there is an urgent need for policymakers, educators and businesses to respond. In this episode of Top Class, we explore what…
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Why are adult literacy skills dropping? Insights from the OECD Survey of Adult Skills
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32:41Over the past decade, literacy and numeracy skills among adults have largely declined or stagnated in most OECD countries. This is the main finding from the second OECD Survey of Adult Skills, a once-in-a-decade assessment that measured the skills of adults across 31 countries and economies. Despite efforts to strengthen education and adult trainin…
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Tired, stressed & burnt out: strategies to support teacher well-being & healthy working environments
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36:11Every year, countless teachers face stress-related illnesses and burnout. While some manage to keep going, often at a reduced capacity, others leave the profession entirely. In this episode of Top Class, we explore how policymakers and schools can better support teacher well-being and create healthy working environments to ensure educators remain h…
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How to close the STEM gender gap
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31:27Why is there a persistent gender gap in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) subjects? Despite their growing importance for many future jobs, women make up only about a third of STEM graduates, with numbers dropping to as low as 20% in some OECD countries. This disparity is alarming to many policymakers, especially considering th…
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How the WorldSkills ‘Olympics’ is breaking the vocational taboo
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29:24Many countries are experiencing a growing skills gap – what can be done to address the issue? WorldSkills, the largest international skills competition, aims to help. Held every two years, it sees more than 1,400 talented young people compete in 62 different technical disciplines, from Cloud Computing and 3D Game Design to Plumbing and Floristry. T…
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How to improve science teaching with Nobel Prize winner Carl Wieman
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27:20On average, science scores have been falling globally for over a decade. What can be done to improve the quality of science teaching? In this episode of Top Class, Nobel Prize winning physicist Carl Wieman, Professor Emeritus of Physics and Education at Stanford University, and Yidan Prize winner, tells OECD Editor Duncan Crawford that current scie…
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The economics of education with Eric Hanushek
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32:57Education budgets are huge. Public spending on schools, universities and other public and private educational institutions is around 5% of GDP across OECD countries on average. But is the money well spent? In this episode of Top Class, Economist Professor Eric Hanusek, the Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford Univer…
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Why a skills-first approach can help fill job gaps
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37:32With some three-quarters of employers reporting difficulty in filling jobs, do traditional hiring methods need to change? As companies shift their focus from past job titles to specific skills, individuals are also rethinking how they present themselves to potential employers. In this episode of Top Class, Papia Debroy from non-profit Opportunity@W…
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Rethinking teacher education to foster student creativity
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29:16How do you create a classroom where students are actively creating, innovating and problem-solving? A part of the answer involves empowering teachers with the tools and training they need to help students be more creative. But what does that involve? In this episode of Top Class, OECD Editor Duncan Crawford speaks to US Primary School Teacher Billi…
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Should smartphones be banned in schools?
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40:33Do smartphones help support learning in classrooms or are they a distraction that harms education? A growing number of governments have implemented restrictions on the use of smartphones in schools. Even without nationwide bans, many schools collect phones at the start of the day or insist on children keeping them in lockers during lesson time. Are…
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How to make teachers take bullying seriously
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27:01Bullying is an urgent issue in many schools and crucial steps need to be taken to address it. In this episode of Top Class, Professor James O’Higgins Norman, the UNESCO Chair on Bullying and Cyberbullying, highlights a common but flawed response from teachers: “I haven’t seen it therefore it doesn’t exist.” What can schools and policymakers do to e…
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In this episode, Rachel and Jason cover a wide range of current education policy topics brewing at the Mississippi Legislature including funding reform, the confirmation of our new state superintendent, and school choice. This Episode was recorded last April 16, 2024.Rachel Canter and Jason Dean által
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Is AI a superpower for the classroom?
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43:58As artificial intelligence integrates into the world of education, how can we ensure it supports effective learning in the classroom? AI learning bots and other AI tools are increasingly being used by students and teachers, but not every agrees this is a good thing. While supporters champion AI as a transformative force that improves personalised l…
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How to navigate ADHD in the classroom
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34:12Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, commonly known as ADHD, is a growing concern for many policymakers around the world. It affects approximately 5% to 10% of children globally and can influence how they learn and behave, including through hyperactive and impulsive behaviour. In this episode of Top Class, Sam Pittis, a British radio presenter…
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The Taliban, school and me: how an Afghan girl risked everything for an education
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26:34Sola Mahfouz was pulled out of school in Afghanistan at the age of 11 after a group of men threatened her safety if she continued studying. After years with no education, she began to secretly teach herself through online classes. Against the odds, Sola later passed a college entry test, travelled to the US to study and is now a quantum computing r…
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The Sausage is About to Be Made
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19:29With the new Legislature set to gavel in on January 2, Rachel and Jason review what they think may be some of the top education policy issues they believe the House and Senate will take up. With years of observing this process, they share a little about how the proverbial sausage gets made.Rachel Canter and Jason Dean által
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Education and Accountability, Part 2
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26:38In this session, Rachel and Jason discuss the recent district and school accountability model score release by the State Board of Education, their impact on educators, and what the future may hold for this issue.Rachel Canter and Jason Dean által
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Why are maths and reading scores dropping globally? New PISA results are out
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25:46While some countries have maintained or improved performance in maths and reading, many countries across the globe have seen large drops in educational performance, according to the latest Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) results. Almost 700,000 15-year old students from 81 countries and economies took the PISA test in maths, r…
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How AI tutors and teaching assistants will transform education
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44:48Sal Khan is the founder and CEO of Khan Academy, a non-profit which aims to provide free, world-class education for everyone. His organisation has developed an AI tutor and teaching assistant that he believes will transform global education for the better. Is he right? In this edition of Top Class, OECD Editor Duncan Crawford explores the far-reach…
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Education and Accountability, Part 1
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35:01Everybody has heard of it. Educators seemingly live by it. But what exactly is “educational accountability”? This first part of a two part series reviews some of the details of this important policy.Rachel Canter and Jason Dean által
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How to empower students to help stop climate change
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29:37On a daily basis, academic studies, reports and news tell us that the Earth’s ecosystem is in danger. But are schools doing enough to help raise awareness about climate change? OECD PISA test results show that schools play a central role in educating kids about environmental issues. In 2018, about 90 percent of school principals across the OECD rep…
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The Ray Morgigno Interview
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28:01In this episode, Rachel and Jason speak with Mississippi’s interim state superintendent Ray Morgigno. Topics range from post-COVID student mental health to teacher recruitment and retention to Jason and Morgigno's mutual love of old school wrestling.Rachel Canter and Jason Dean által
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What should the teaching profession look like in the future?
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34:16Rapid developments in technology and society mean education is constantly on the move. These developments are having a profound effect on both students and teachers. So what should the teaching profession look like in the future?In this Top Class podcast, Professor A Lin Goodwin from the Lynch School of Education and Human Development at Boston Col…
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How to support education for Ukraine’s war children
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35:58Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine has led to the destruction of much of the country’s education system. Thousands of schools and universities have been damaged or destroyed, with teachers, students and parents killed in Russian attacks. With the education of millions of children interrupted, how should policymakers, schools and teachers re…
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Neither a Myth nor a Miracle: Mississippi’s Educational Progress
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34:09In 2019, Mississippi’s fourth graders met the national average on the Nation’s Report Card, a national test measuring reading a math achievement at fourth and eighth grades. Since then, the national press has had a lot to say about it–for good or for ill. Rachel and Jason discuss both the praise and the backlash and what the state should actually f…
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Triumphs and struggles: Insights from the US Teacher of the Year
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34:03US National Teacher of the Year Rebecka Peterson on teaching struggles, “flip” lessons, & what it was like to meet US President Joe Biden & US First Lady, Dr. Jill Biden.Listen to Top Class with Duncan CrawfordOECD Education & Skills által
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How exposed should young children be to digital technologies?
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26:13In a world of tablets, smartphones and AI – how exposed should young children be to digital technologies? This episode of Top Class explores the latest research on the use of digital tech in creches, nurseries and kindergartens. OECD policy analyst Carlos González-Sancho tells OECD editor Duncan Crawford about the findings of the OECD report “Empow…
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Everything you need to know about micro-credentials
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28:44🎧 Top Class Micro-credentials are bite-sized qualifications designed to help people demonstrate they have certain skills or experience.Dr Monique Ositelu from data consultancy firm Itàn & Shizuka Kato, Education Policy Analyst at the OECD explain why they’re becoming more popular.OECD Education & Skills által
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Why skills like empathy are so important in education
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29:25‘A focus on social & emotional skills is fundamentally about high quality teaching’Professor Stephanie Jones from Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) talks to Duncan Crawford, Senior Content Manager at the OECD, about the challenges to teaching these skills, practical tips and Sesame Street.OECD Education & Skills által
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Master teachers, AI tutors & 24 hour schools – just some ideas for the future of education
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31:57On this OECD Education and Skills podcast Professor Patrick Newell from Shizenkan University joins Duncan Crawford, Senior Content Manager of the OECD's Education and Skills Directorate, to discuss how learning in schools could drastically change in the future.OECD Education & Skills által
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The Non-Confirmation of Mississippi’s State Superintendent of Education
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33:50The Mississippi Senate voted to not confirm the State Board of Education choice to lead Mississippi’s school. Rachel and Jason discuss their perspectives on what went wrong and how to get back on track.Rachel Canter and Jason Dean által
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Introducing “The Assignment”
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34:10In this episode, Rachel and Jason discuss their backgrounds and why working on education policy in Mississippi is important to them.Rachel Canter and Jason Dean által
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How to ensure all children get an equal chance to succeed
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31:48On the latest Top Class podcast 🎧, OECD's Education Senior Editor Duncan Crawford is joined by John McLaughlin, President & CEO of Atlantic Education International, to discuss educational challenges in Canada, teachers under pressure, and how to ensure all children get an equal chance to succeed at school.…
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How To Tackle Cyberbullying - At School, At Home And Online
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32:35Cyberbullying is a growing problem worldwide and has serious consequences for students. It can take place on social media, gaming platforms and mobile phones, and often involves scaring, angering or shaming an individual or group. The experience can be incredibly traumatic for young people, who sometimes feel that escaping from it is impossible. It…
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Why Gen Z is Our Planet's Best Hope
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20:57From the autumn of 2019 till the pandemic shutdowns, schoolchildren in the millions marched to save Earth from irreparable climate crisis. Calling on world leaders to keep the planet’s temperature rise below 1.5°C by cutting carbon emissions, teens organised an unprecedented scale of climate strikes around the globe. And they are still going. Evide…
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How I learned to stop worrying and love math
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27:02The uproar over the 2021 Revision of the California Mathematics Framework shows us how passionate people are about mathematics – and how we learn it. For many, however, math arouses not so much passion as fear, even, loathing. But does it have to be this way? Jo Boaler is a professor of mathematics education at Stanford University. She is the autho…
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Money matters for global education
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28:19There’s a gaping hole in the global education budget and it’s 200 billion US dollars deep. Yearly. Part of the problem has to do with taxes: Many developing countries raise less than 20% of their GDP in tax revenues and out of this, education should take up between 4 to 6% of GDP. That’s a tall order in deficitary times. Michael Ward, OECD Senior A…
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The shortest way to a good report card? Hip hop
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24:19Sometimes the road to doing well at school goes through surprising places, like hip hop. In 2015, the Lycée Turgot in Paris pioneered a programme for 15- to 18-year-olds that combines regular academic classes with hip hop dance. The brainchild of teacher David Bérillon, Hip Hop Turgot now has students from all over the country, as well as the city’…
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Is digital media literacy the answer to our disinformation woes?
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25:21Never before has critical thinking been so…critical. With so much compromised information online, how do we know what’s opinion? What’s fact? And what’s disinformation? Education can teach us to ask questions, check sources, and understand how algorithms impact the information we’re getting. And, none of this needs to be taught in STEM-based comput…
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The hard reality of school for LGBTQI+ students
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22:56For many LGBTQI+ students, school can be a hostile place. Bullying and the social and emotional strain of not feeling part of the sexual and gender mainstream is tough, especially for teens. Can teachers, principals, students and governments come together for the well-being of LGBTQI+ students? Can schools be safe, and creatively and intellectually…
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Disinformation and its discontents
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27:24When factual information comes under attack, societies head into Orwellian waters. OECD’s Andreas Schleicher and Molly Lesher discuss disinformation and other forms of “untruths” and how to get the measure of a tenacious and elusive phenomenon. Societies can tackle harmful information through citizen- and AI-driven fact-checking and content tagging…
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Kim Kardashian has been apprenticing with two lawyers for the past few years to become a lawyer herself in California. Apprenticeships like Kardashian’s “reading law” and vocational education training are career pathways that not enough young people are considering when deciding on what to do after high school. And maybe they’re not thinking about …
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For Ukraine’s refugee students, school is urgent
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25:50After the immediate needs of food, medical and psychosocial care, and housing, comes education. According to the UNHCR and UNICEF, “education for refugee children is arguably the best means available to help them, here and now, and to transform their futures.” Estonia is one of the countries on the front line for refugees fleeing the war. We talk t…
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How Estonia put the “e“ in e-education
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22:41Estonia was the top performing European country in PISA 2018 in reading, math and science. And it’s done this with an education budget that is 30 % lower than the OECD average. Does digital strategy have something to do with Estonia’s success story? Estonia’s Ambassador-at-large for education, Birgit Lao, explains. Host: Clara Young; Producer: Ilse…
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Unlearning gender bias with Iceland’s Margrét Pála Ólafsdóttir
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20:22Iceland has topped global charts on gender equality for nearly a decade. One of the country’s more radical approaches to breaking gender stereotypes is a school method called Hjalli. Margrét Pála Ólafsdóttir opened the first Hjalli pre-school in 1989. Here, children play with open-ended toys, wear school uniforms and use gender-neutral learning mat…
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Switching on the curiosity lightbulb with MIT’s Mitch Resnick and OECD’s Rowena Phair
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22:32“Why is the sky blue?” “Why do people get sick?” “Why aren’t there any more dinosaurs?” Sometimes it feels like children never stop asking questions. And they shouldn’t. A recent OECD International Early Learning and Child Wellbeing study shows that children who are curious have stronger language and number skills, and better self-control. So how d…
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Are student loans a financial house of cards? Lorraine Dearden discusses
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22:49People who graduate from university have on average better health, better life expectancy, and better earnings than those who don’t. But many students just can’t afford higher education, especially in countries where there’s less public money going into grants, bursaries and tuition waivers. With higher education budgets possibly tightening, where …
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