The evaluation of students by notation has been the subject of numerous criticisms, in particular from the didactician of mathematics André Antibi, who denounced, in a resounding way, a “macabre constant” . The formula refers to the social pressure that would push teachers, for the assessments to be considered credible, to put a certain percentage of bad marks regardless of […] … learn more→

Times change, students too, and the educational model finds it difficult to keep up with the rapid pace of these changes. The transition from a traditional model of knowledge accumulation to a skills model and, now, to a results model, demands a vision of the future. It is necessary to make efficient use of the efforts […] … learn more→

Australia’s class of 2022 is on the home stretch. Next month, more than 200,000 year 12 students will be sitting their final exams. In amongst this, they are making big decisions about their lives beyond school. But research shows they are not getting the support they need as they finish school and move into the work or […] … learn more→

If you went to high school in the United States anytime since the 1960s, you were likely assigned some of the following books: Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet,” “Julius Caesar” and “Macbeth”; John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men”; F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby”; Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird”; and William Golding’s “The Lord of […] … learn more→

The Productivity Commission has just released a review of school standards in Australia. It finds we “persistently fall short” when it comes to providing a high quality and equitable education for all students. Coming in at 253 pages, there is a lot to read. And a lot we already know. But this report comes at a crucial […] … learn more→

With the decline in the number of candidates for teaching competitions, to which is added a high resignation rate in the first years of their career, National Education found itself faced with a large number of unfilled posts , kindergarten to high school, and had to organize the recruitment of contract workers to meet the needs of the start of the […] … learn more→

Demographic changes resulting from the increase in immigrant students have had an impact on the growth of linguistic diversity. Today, it is an essential feature of the education system. This trend, in the Spanish context, has brought the need to increasingly offer Spanish as a second language: a real challenge for many educational centers. The creation of the […] … learn more→

As early as 2005, the OECD predicted that countries, including France, would be short of teachers in the decades to come, due to retirements in view of the aging of the teaching population and the sharp decline in the attractiveness for the profession. The OECD then proposed a five-pronged action strategy: make teaching an attractive career choice; strengthen […] … learn more→

School has always been the greatest enemy of body movement. Its small classrooms, desks and static chairs, retain and attenuate the innate energy of boys and girls. The few hours of Physical Education included in the educational curriculum seem to reflect a contempt of the political authorities towards this matter. A discipline that, despite its low weekly workload (from […] … learn more→

To feel competent, autonomous and socially integrated: these are the three fundamental needs of students that must be met if we want them to be able to learn effectively. In any case, this is what the psychology of education teaches us, and these needs are involved in the motivation and well-being of students. The closure of universities and […] … learn more→