Overall, differences in teachers’ subject knowledge could explain a third of the differences in student learning between the 14 countries.
South Africa’s introducing coding as a school subject but until teacher education, IT infrastructure and internet connectivity issues, among others are addressed, the country has a long way to go.
It’s not clear how health claims could be substantiated, enforced or understood, but there are other ways to encourage healthy food choices.
The fanfare and hype around the results risks obscuring the big picture.
Police officers are also not, and are not expected to be, sworn translators or interpreters. This has serious implications for justice.
Reading involves more than decoding letter-sound relationships and making meaning from isolated texts.
When children engage with STEM concepts their visual literacy and conceptual understanding of scientific concepts are strengthened.
More and more children are attending primary school in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. But there are worryingly large gaps in their learning.
Authors Lutz and Klingholz explore how mass literacy became a revolution that changed the world.
There’s no perfect teaching approach guaranteed to prepare student teachers to teach subjects in English in a multilingual environment. But there are things universities can do to prepare them.
