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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 6 May 2020
“A teacher’s experience having to get to grips with online teaching in the midst of a global pandemic”, by Lisa O’Donoghue.

Lisa O’Donoghue

I sighed as I sat down at my kitchen table. To my left, a fresh cup of coffee, to my right stacks of textbooks, in front of me a fully charged Microsoft Surface Pro. Right, let’s do this! My fingers hovered uncertainly over my keyboard as I perused my notes...
“A teacher’s experience having to get to grips with online teaching in the midst of a global pandemic”, by Lisa O’Donoghue.
Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 5 May 2020
“The impact of COVID-19 on society in the Asia-Pacific region”, by Masaki Okajima.

Masaki Okajima

COVID-19 is spreading worldwide, impacting children, educators, parents and, most seriously, vulnerable people. The pandemic has affected over 1.5 billion learners in 192 countries in the world. School closures affect over 91% of the world’s enrolled student population and teaching personnel. Most countries in Asia-Pacific have been taking measures to...
“The impact of COVID-19 on society in the Asia-Pacific region”, by Masaki Okajima.
Equity and inclusion 29 April 2020
“Transforming economies and the financing of public education post-COVID”, by David Archer.

David Archer

Public health and public education systems that have been underfunded for a generation are being overwhelmed by COVID-19. We are just now beginning to see the scale of the impact this will have on low income countries and on girls and women in particular. Much of the burden of caring...
“Transforming economies and the financing of public education post-COVID”, by David Archer.
Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 29 April 2020
“What’s next for schools after coronavirus? Here are 5 big issues and opportunities”, by Andy Hargreaves.

Andy Hargreaves

No schools, no exams, more online learning and parents in COVID-19 lockdown with their kids. What a mess! People are responding heroically. Some parents are working from home, others have lost their jobs and teachers are creating an entire new way of doing their jobs — not to mention the...
“What’s next for schools after coronavirus? Here are 5 big issues and opportunities”, by Andy Hargreaves.
Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 28 April 2020
“We are one world”, by Lily Eskelsen García.

Lily Eskelsen García

As COVID-19 pandemic continues spreading around the world, educators are being called on to teach, reach and comfort their students and guide frantic parents. Stories shared by my EI colleagues fill me with hope. We are all in this together. We will get through this crisis together.
“We are one world”, by Lily Eskelsen García.
Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 25 April 2020
“Intellectual property in times of Coronavirus”, by Yamile Socolovsky.

Yamile Socolovsky

The measures taken by most governments to try to slow the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic have been varied, and in some cases inadequate or too late. But almost everywhere in the world, cessation of face-to-face educational activities at all levels has been the rule.
“Intellectual property in times of Coronavirus”, by Yamile Socolovsky.
Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 24 April 2020
“COVID-19 and Education in South Korea”, by Hyunsu Hwang.

Hyunsu Hwang

COVID-19 is a world-wide fear and a tremendous threat in every area of our lives. It affects everyone in the world. The scenes being captured look very familiar to us in a sense. They look like scenes from movies, but sadly this is a real and unprecedented situation in human...
“COVID-19 and Education in South Korea”, by Hyunsu Hwang.
Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 23 April 2020
“Optimism of the Will”, by Dennis Shirley.

Dennis Shirley

Covid-19 has changed everything. Like it or not, our world is just at the beginning of a historically unprecedented shift to new ways of being, thinking, and doing. The international educational professional will need to respond with its full ingenuity and expertise to this unprecedented challenge.
“Optimism of the Will”, by Dennis Shirley.
Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 22 April 2020
“We need new ideas to ensure education responses to Covid-19 don’t harm those marginalized”, by Manos Antoninis.

Manos Antoninis

In the middle of the turmoil that the pandemic has caused, two perspectives are critical. First, the upheaval has thrown pre-existing inequalities into sharp relief. Second, the crisis is the backdrop to a crash course in moral philosophy: we are all faced with stark choices, as solutions that help some,...
“We need new ideas to ensure education responses to Covid-19 don’t harm those marginalized”, by Manos Antoninis.
Democracy 16 April 2020
"Teachers rising to the challenge of a global pandemic", by Steffen Handal.

Steffen Handal

In Norway, schools and kindergartens have been closed since the middle of March. Only children whose parents have a socio-critical profession have been attending. The Government has decided that early childhood institutions will open April 20th and grade 1 - 4 one week later.
"Teachers rising to the challenge of a global pandemic", by Steffen Handal.
Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 15 April 2020
“Coronavirus Curriculum”, by Felisa Tibbitts.

Felisa Tibbitts

The pandemic is stretching the limits of school systems’ abilities to deliver education with the assistance of technology. The struggles of local and national education systems are well documented, and leaders are scrambling to address an overwhelming set of inter-connected challenges to the well-being of students, teachers, staff and administrators...
“Coronavirus Curriculum”, by Felisa Tibbitts.
Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 14 April 2020
“Teleworking for Teachers”, by Miguel Duhalde.

Miguel Duhalde

Argentina reported its first case of COVID-19 on 3 March 2020; by 19 March, the country declared a complete lockdown when the number of confirmed infections reached 128. In response to the crisis, the government adopted a series of health, social and economic measures to slow down the spread of...
“Teleworking for Teachers”, by Miguel Duhalde.
Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 9 April 2020
"World Bank shifts position on funding for most private-for-profit schools", by David Edwards.

David Edwards

In a sudden and far-reaching policy shift, World Bank President David Malpass has agreed to major reforms that include officially freezing any direct or indirect investments in private for-profit pre-primary, primary and secondary schools. This has been a critical issue for Education International for many years and has been the...
"World Bank shifts position on funding for most private-for-profit schools", by David Edwards.
Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 9 April 2020
“What the Covid-19 Pandemic will change in education depends on the thoughtfulness of education responses today”, by Fernando M. Reimers.

Fernando M. Reimers

The Pandemic that is ravaging the globe is likely to cause the most serious disruption to educational opportunity in at least a century. The studies and lives of those currently in school will be impacted in multiple ways, some yet to be understood. Most immediately, because necessary physical distancing measures...
“What the Covid-19 Pandemic will change in education depends on the thoughtfulness of education responses today”, by Fernando M. Reimers.
Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 7 April 2020
“How the COVID-19 crisis may impact higher education unions’ work and strategy on casualisation”, by Rob Copeland.

Rob Copeland

In response to the devastating COVID-19 pandemic, unions have been working hard to ensure that governments mitigate the effects on workers’ jobs, salaries and working conditions. During this ongoing crisis, workers in so-called ‘non-standard forms of employment’[1] such as those on zero-hours contracts, in agency work and in ‘bogus self-employment’...
“How the COVID-19 crisis may impact higher education unions’ work and strategy on casualisation”, by Rob Copeland.
Climate action and literacy 3 April 2020
“Coronavirus: Our principles, values, and shared humanity”, by Susan Hopgood.

Susan Hopgood

Combat of the Coronavirus has graduated in many countries to closing of schools and most public gatherings and some businesses. EI has mostly focused on the impact on education and teachers and Education Support Personnel (ESP) and have been providing reports regularly from countries and regions and on what is...
“Coronavirus: Our principles, values, and shared humanity”, by Susan Hopgood.
Equity and inclusion 1 April 2020
“Joined up Action Needed: Gender and Schooling in the Time of COVID 19”, by Elaine Unterhalter.

Elaine Unterhalter

More than 1.5 billion children worldwide are out of school due to COVID 19 and we don't know for how long. As yet there is no gender disaggregation of these figures. This shock comes at a time when, slowly, the number of children enrolling and completing school was beginning to...
“Joined up Action Needed: Gender and Schooling in the Time of COVID 19”, by Elaine Unterhalter.
Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 30 March 2020
“How should we continue student learning during covid19?”, by Armand Doucet.

Armand Doucet

In a previous blog post, we discussed whether we should proceed with student learning during COVID19. In this one we will look at how we should do it, reflecting on the challenges of addressing student education remotely which we call distance learning, also called remote learning in some parts of...
“How should we continue student learning during covid19?”, by Armand Doucet.

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