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Great teachers spend less time marking and more time teaching
Category: Commentary
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Everyone seems to think their country has fallen behind. I’ve had the same conversation with teachers in Brazil, Hong Kong, Qatar, USA… everywhere. I think it results from a sampling error. The teachers you meet in your own country are probably a representative spectrum, but those from other countries you meet typically through elearning events/websites,…
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Ebay just announced that they are banning sellers from providing negative feedback on buyers. This solves the problem of ‘revenge feedback’, or the threat of it being used to bully buyers into accepting a bad deal. But it also breaks the symmetry of the system and denies essential protection to sellers. Out of the frying…
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So Schools of the Future has slipped again. Good. Perhaps that will give Gordon time to decide to spend the money on education, instead of buildings that will be outdated before they are even completed.
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(click here if you can’t see the video) This is simply mind-boggling. Gordon Brown just promised to hire 750,000 Indian teachers to teach English to 1,000,000,000 Chinese, via the web. I have criticised the guy in the past for lack of vision, but I unreservedly withdraw that now. Whether the Chinese will welcome this, or…
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I mean historically. For once, I’m not trying to be contentious, just to list the reasons we have chosen to make this enormous social investment. The British Public Schools created a steady trickle of young men who had the skills and attitude to run the empire. The apprenticeship system has produced artisans since the Middle…
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