University College London provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. We are beginning to see whether these borrowed methods are working in the classroom. My new study, which looked ...

As a young teacher in an East Lansing, Mich., elementary school, Deborah Loewenberg Ball realized teaching mathematics required a special kind of knowledge. Unfortunately, she didn’t have it. Take ...

There's a little war going on in the education community. Don't panic, there is nothing dangerous about this conflict. It is only ideological. What is the object of the division? The educational ...

In an ever-changing world, education must adapt to prepare children for the challenges of the 21st century. In a society where calculators and digital technologies are ubiquitous, mathematics ...

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IN many training colleges for primary school teachers there are elaborate courses of study on psychology and ethics. Surely a knowledge of morals and of the mental machinery of boys and girls would be ...

Though the pass rates in public examinations are getting higher, a huge number of students are failing to master the desired competencies due to a flawed teaching system, observes the World Bank. The ...