Three 9-year-old girls are huddled around a Caesar wheel, an ancient tool for sharing secret messages. Cracking a code is one of many challenges the girls complete to help characters in CryptoComics escape a mysterious cyberworld into which they’ve been drawn. CryptoComics is a curriculum designed to teach elementary school children – particularly girls of color – […] … learn more→

During the past decade, the digital transformation of society has accelerated, and the pandemic has completed our technological immersion in virtually every facet of life. That is why it has become essential to have the ability to access, evaluate, create and use information critically, as well as to create content, collaborate with others and communicate safely […] … learn more→

Languages ​​are constellations of words shared by all those speakers who are immersed in a specific linguistic environment. Despite their surprising variety – there are about 7000 -, linguistics tries to analyze them and determine their structure. This relatively recent discipline, which has many schools and approaches, has also investigated the different functions of language. But what […] … learn more→

What do wireless speakers, streaming music subscriptions, smartphones and customized game controllers have in common? They are some of the best tech gifts for children and teens this year. Rounding out the list are a range of smartwatches and fitness trackers, also called e-wearables. And you’re not alone if you’re thinking of buying your child or teen one […] … learn more→

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→