Experts say experiment to use Shanghai maths teachers in English schools could soon raise UK from 26th position on the international league table The government’s controversial experiment with ...

University College London provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. We are beginning to see whether these borrowed methods are working in the classroom. My new study, which looked ...

Though the pass rates in public examinations are getting higher, a huge number of students are failing to master the desired competencies due to a flawed teaching system, observes the World Bank. The ...

As a young teacher in an East Lansing, Mich., elementary school, Deborah Loewenberg Ball realized teaching mathematics required a special kind of knowledge. Unfortunately, she didn’t have it. Take ...

There's a little war going on in the education community. Don't panic, there is nothing dangerous about this conflict. It is only ideological. What is the object of the division? The educational ...

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As Australia slips down in global rankings, maths experts are divided on which teaching method is best for students Australia’s sliding mathematics ranking and disagreements around how the subject ...

Dr Prince Hamid Armah, a distinguished academic, curriculum specialist and former head of the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA), has announced the forthcoming publication of a ...

IN many training colleges for primary school teachers there are elaborate courses of study on psychology and ethics. Surely a knowledge of morals and of the mental machinery of boys and girls would be ...