A recent podcast series on the 2013-14 Trojan Horse affair – an alleged but unproven plot to implement a strict Islamic ethos in some schools in Birmingham – has drawn attention to the place that religion occupies in state-funded education in England and Wales. While some countries such as France or the United States make a clear […] … learn more→

How do you learn a foreign language? For most people, this involves the tedious learning of grammar rules, the memorization of vocabulary, sometimes stammered words with embarrassment or, for the youngest, watching TV series and using apps. playful. A lot of time and energy are devoted to it, but sometimes without convincing results. Remember that, according to […] … learn more→

Online school during the COVID-19 pandemic was hard on many teens, but new research I co-authored has found a potential silver lining: Students were bullied less during remote instruction than while attending classes in person. We learned this by surveying 388 ninth graders at U.S. high schools. We asked them to answer questions three times over the 2020-2021 school year, […] … learn more→

After decades of growth, the number of high school girls who take Advanced Placement math exams is now almost the same as the number for boys. In 1997, 83 girls for every 100 boys took an AP math exam. By 2019, that number rose to 96 for every 100 boys. But when it comes to […] … learn more→

  Big air? Well yes, I have been sporadically watching the Winter Olympics. And if you have too, you’ll know that big air is the term used to describe events where a highly skilled and very brave person takes a big run down a slope and then leaps as high and travels forward as far […] … learn more→

When we enter a classroom in which the children are focused on tasks, even if they are different from one another, we enter into amazement . Nothing focuses concentration more than wonder at a challenge. For there to be fascination, interest, desire to know or act, these components are necessary: One or several subjects that motivate. One or […] … learn more→

Depending on the circumstances, perfectionism can be an asset or a defect, at school or at work. And when it leads to a performance gain, it can be overshadowed by wellness issues . Links have thus been established between perfectionism and burnout or depression . Evidence of these types of negative effects can be found in many contexts, and particularly among young people, […] … learn more→

A storm wind currently seems to be blowing on the teaching of mathematics if we judge by the sensational declarations of this beginning of the year 2022 around the reform of the high school initiated by the Minister of National Education Jean-Michel Blanquer, and entered into force in 2019. By putting an end to the […] … learn more→

A global analysis has found that kids whose schools closed to stop the spread of various waves of the coronavirus lost educational progress and are at increased risk of dropping out of school. As a result, the study says, they will earn less money from work over their lifetimes than they would have if schools had remained open. Educational researchers […] … learn more→

The recent case of a Christian school in Queensland asking parents to sign a contract, stating, among other things, homosexuality is immoral and their children will only identify as their birth gender, sparked a furore across the country. It also highlighted an ethical issue many staff face: what action to take if their school’s values conflict […] … learn more→