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Fighting the commercialisation of education 23 January 2017 Profiting from public education’s digital nervous system
By Sam Sellar, Manchester Metropolitan University While 2016 was a tumultuous year in global politics, it also came with a number of surprises in the world of technology. Google’s AlphaGo triumphed over professional Go player, Lee Sedol, signaling a major advance in the development of artificial intelligence. Facebook found itself...
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Opinion 17 January 2017 School Privatizer to Head US Department of EducationSchool Privatizer to Head US Department of Education
Bob Peterson
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 10 January 2017 Schooling, privatisation and post-truth politics
By Bob Lingard, University of Queensland Usually each New Year begins with optimistic hopes for something better than what has gone before. Sadly and worryingly, 2017 seems ominous in negative ways rather than inspiring a sense of hope.
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Opinion 10 January 2017 Teaching Students to Improve the WorldTeaching Students to Improve the World
Fernando M. Reimers
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Opinion 22 December 2016 Reflections on “Democracy and Education”Reflections on “Democracy and Education”
Fred van Leeuwen
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Opinion 20 December 2016 Defending Freedom: Educating in the Trump EraDefending Freedom: Educating in the Trump Era
Carlyn Adamson
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 19 December 2016 Turkey: standing up for democratic, public education
By Howard Stevenson, University of Nottingham Long before the recent coup attempt in Turkey democratic secular and public education in the country was under attack, but since the coup the situation has deteriorated rapidly.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 16 December 2016 Refusing Vouchers to Protect Public Education
By Frank Adamson, Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE) The assumed election of Donald Trump and his nomination of Betsy DeVos as the Secretary of Education have placed the American system of public education under threat. Trump and DeVos will likely propose a national voucher scheme that would...
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Opinion 14 December 2016 Teacher Unions, Many Countries, Common ChallengesTeacher Unions, Many Countries, Common Challenges
Nina Bascia
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 8 December 2016 Decentralisation and Neoliberal Community Participation in Education
By Brent Edwards, University of Hawaii Although decentralisation has for decades been a common theme among education reformers, we must be careful with this term. Not only has its meaning changed over time (Edwards & DeMatthews, 2014) but there are various degrees of decentralisation—ranging, for example, from deconcentration of administrative...
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Equity and inclusion 6 December 2016 Educating Refugees: an opportunity for teachers’ voice and leadership
By Fernando M. Reimers, Professor of the Practice of International Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education.
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Opinion 6 December 2016 Turkish educators after the coup: ‘We will win’.Turkish educators after the coup: ‘We will win’.
Howard Stevenson
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 5 December 2016 Bridge schools long overdue for a reality check
By Fred van Leeuwen, General Secretary, Education International When the world marks International Human Rights Day on December 10 it will do so in what are trying times around the globe. Amid an ever-increasing conflict between the rights of people and the rights of corporations, we are witnessing a fraying...
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Opinion 28 November 2016 Messengers of Hope in a Time of Reckoning: Educating Refugees.Messengers of Hope in a Time of Reckoning: Educating Refugees.
Fernando M. Reimers
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 25 November 2016 The privatisation of education can be reversed. Evidence from recent education reforms in Bolivia
by Clara Fontdevila and Antoni Verger, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Education privatization processes are frequently deemed as irreversible. The transformative power of pro-private and market-oriented reforms is well known. These types of reforms tend to dramatically reconfigure and redefine the governance of education systems, and they usually do so beyond...
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Equity and inclusion 18 November 2016 Continuing professional development and learning for teachers –a fast track to equal opportunities and integration
by Philippa Cordingley, Chief Executive of CUREE (Centre for the Use of Research and Evidence in Education)
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 17 November 2016 Quality Education – a public good at the heart of democracy
By Susan Hopgood, Education International (EI) President and Fred van Leeuwen, EI's General Secretary When we look back on our education, we remember teachers who changed our lives, who opened new worlds to us, who challenged us to think and to debate and to discover. We recall the excitement of...
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Opinion 16 November 2016 Students unite behind global education campaign "Fund our future"Students unite behind global education campaign "Fund our future"
Beth Button