Two important patterns in education are true world-wide. First, females outperform males in most subjects, and boys do not outperform girls in high school maths and physics. Second, more females than males enrol in higher education. However, female enrolments in science, technology, mathematics and engineering (STEM) degrees are disproportionately low. My research with Professor Victor Lavy has shown teacher gender […] … learn more→

Abdullah has learned three languages ​​other than his mother tongue in school, and by the end of the sixth grade he is proficient in all four. His school has 92% immigrant students of more than 28 nationalities and families of low socioeconomic status. The students of this center obtain excellent results in the assessments of basic competences in […] … learn more→

In 2010, France signed the European commitments entitled “Europe 2020” , one of the objectives of which was to reduce the school dropout rate below 10% by 2020. That is to say, less than 10%. % of young people leave their training with a level lower than that of the CAP-BEP. In 2019, the school dropout rate was 8% . […] … learn more→

When a music education specialist comes to a special education center for the first time, the first thing he asks himself is what he can do and, above all, how he is going to do it. Although it is something that students tend to like very much, the Music subject should not be considered as […] … learn more→

Language and social identity have been making headlines recently. Last month, Air Canada’s CEO Michael Rousseau faced scrutiny over not knowing French — his language deficit is helping support Bill 96 in Québec (which seeks to change the Canadian Constitution to affirm Québec as a nation and French its official language). Meanwhile Indian chain store Fabindia had to change advertisements […] … learn more→

Thanks to COP26, calls to transform education to better respond to current challenges have multiplied. This is how the convivialists Renaud Hétier, François Prouteau and Nathanaël Wallenhorst remind us “how much education can be a political tool of choice for relearning to live together”, that François Taddei, director of the Interdisciplinary Research Center (CRI) in calls for making young people […] … learn more→

Education is built on the belief that people can be more. In the words of the 20th-century American sociologist and writer W.E.B. DuBois, an important anti-racist leader and figure in the development of African American education, “what people are depends on the way they have been educated, the way … their possibilities have been developed and […] … learn more→

Teaching graduates want “more time spent in schools”. This research finding is noted in the discussion paper of the teacher education review announced by the federal education minister in March this year. However, during the COVID-19 pandemic, thousands of pre-service teachers were unable to do any teaching placements. This breakdown of the placement system highlighted existing weaknesses in teacher education, which now threaten […] … learn more→

Whenever a school shooting takes place like the one at Oxford High School in suburban Detroit on November 30, 2021, it is typically followed by a familiar chorus of questions. How could such a thing happen? Why doesn’t the government do more to stop these shootings from occurring? Those questions are even more urgent in light of […] … learn more→

Children flourish when they learn in nature. It can improve their health, attention capacity and social skills. The enriching experience of outdoor learning can also lead to significant improvements in children’s mood and wellbeing, which last through the academic year. However, teachers are not leading outdoor learning as much as they would like. In a 2018 survey conducted by Semble (formerly Project Dirt), […] … learn more→