Assessment of 21st Century Skills

Primary school students do exercises in the corridor and in a classroom as they avoid outdoor activities due to heavy smog, in Beijing October 11, 2014. The Beijing Meteorological Bureau forecast that gales brought by a cold spell is expected to arrive at the Chinese capital on Saturday night, which would disperse severe smog and air pollution shrouding China's northern regions since Wednesday, Xinhua News Agency reported. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA - Tags: ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY EDUCATION) CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA - GM1EAAB1CVT01

Assessment of transversal competencies: Current tools in the Asian region

Esther Care, Alvin Vista, and Helyn Kim

Friday, June 14, 2019

Kimani Murage, an 84-year-old Kenyan grandfather who has 30 grandchildren, attends lessons with classmates January 15, 2004 at a primary school after the government introduced free primary education last year. Murage, who was part of the Mau Mau movement that fought against British colonial rule in Kenya in the 1950s, has classmates whose average age is seven years old, and two of his grandchildren attend more advanced classes in the same school in Kenya's Eldoret district, some 270 km (162 miles) northwest of the capital Nairobi. REUTERS/Beatrice Mategwa PP04010048 RS/ACM - RP4DRIGLUBAC

A collaborative approach to teaching and assessing 21st century skills in Africa

Helyn Kim, Esther Care, and Davide Ruscelli

Thursday, April 25, 2019

Students from a primary school read books inside a classroom on Ghoramara Island, India, November 16, 2018. Ghoramara Island, part of the Sundarbans delta on the Bay of Bengal, has nearly halved in size over the past two decades, according to village elders. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri SEARCH "CHOWDHURI COASTLINE" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. - RC16F935BB30

Integrating 21st century skills into education systems: From rhetoric to reality

Ramya Vivekanandan

Thursday, February 14, 2019

Schoolchildren listen to a teacher as they study during a class in the Oudaya primary school in Rabat, September 15, 2015, at the start of the new school year in Morocco. Nearly three years after Taliban gunmen shot Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, the teenage activist last week urged world leaders gathered in New York to help millions more children go to school. World Teachers' Day falls on 5 October, a Unesco initiative highlighting the work of educators struggling to teach children amid intimidation in Pakistan, conflict in Syria or poverty in Vietnam. Even so, there have been some improvements: the number of children not attending primary school has plummeted to an estimated 57 million worldwide in 2015, the U.N. says, down from 100 million 15 years ago. Reuters photographers have documented learning around the world, from well-resourced schools to pupils crammed into corridors in the Philippines, on boats in Brazil or in crowded classrooms in Burundi. REUTERS/Youssef BoudlalPICTURE 40 OF 47 FOR WIDER IMAGE STORY "SCHOOLS AROUND THE WORLD"SEARCH "EDUCATORS SCHOOLS" FOR ALL IMAGES - GF10000226473

To teach or not to teach? It’s a little more complicated than that

Monday, February 11, 2019

Giang Thi May teaches a first grade class at the primary school of Van Chai in Dong Van district, on the border with China, north of Hanoi, Vietnam, September 21, 2015. There is no electricity and no books. She teaches the children in the local Hmong language. Nearly three years after Taliban gunmen shot Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, the teenage activist last week urged world leaders gathered in New York to help millions more children go to school. World Teachers' Day falls on 5 October, a Unesco initiative highlighting the work of educators struggling to teach children amid intimidation in Pakistan, conflict in Syria or poverty in Vietnam. Even so, there have been some improvements: the number of children not attending primary school has plummeted to an estimated 57 million worldwide in 2015, the U.N. says, down from 100 million 15 years ago. Reuters photographers have documented learning around the world, from well-resourced schools to pupils crammed into corridors in the Philippines, on boats in Brazil or in crowded classrooms in Burundi. REUTERS/Kham TPX IMAGES OF THE DAYPICTURE 33 OF 47 FOR WIDER IMAGE STORY "SCHOOLS AROUND THE WORLD"SEARCH "EDUCATORS SCHOOLS" FOR ALL IMAGES TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - GF10000226464

Challenges in integrating 21st century skills into education systems

Tserennadmid Nyamkhuu and Jun Morohashi

Tuesday, February 5, 2019

Young Nicobarese tsunami survivors study in a classroom in a relief camp in Port Blair, the capital of India's Andaman and Nicobar archipelago January 13, 2005. [India, which had shunned foreign help for its tsunami victims, has now allowed UNICEF to help mount a campaign in the battered Andaman and Nicobar islands to prevent an outbreak of measles and blindness among children.] - PBEAHUODMFX

Education systems need alignment for teaching and learning 21st century skills

Helyn Kim, Esther Care, and Alvin Vista

Wednesday, January 30, 2019

A young Rwandan boy who is an orphan and living with HIV/AIDS, paints in a classroom run by UNICEF (United nations Children's Emergency Fund) in Kigali in this undated photograph. AIDS is a big problem in Rwanda, especially after the civil war and genocide of the 1990s, and thousands of children are forced to survive on the streets. - PBEAHUKWABH

Education system alignment for 21st century skills

Esther Care, Helyn Kim, Alvin Vista, and Kate Anderson

Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Classroom in Nepal

How educators use assessment data to improve student learning in Nepal: Challenges and solutions

Deviram Acharya and Alvin Vista

Friday, January 25, 2019

Mongolian student studying

Using assessment data to help students thrive: Classroom perspectives from Mongolia

Khandjav Terbish, Munkhbayar Baljinnyam, and Esther Care

Thursday, December 20, 2018

Thainara Santos, 22, conducts a lesson with her pupils in a classroom at Sao Jose school in Morro Do Veridiano, Belagua Municipality, Maranhao state, Brazil, October 10, 2018. Picture taken October 10, 2018. According to the 2015 National Household Sample Survey (Pnad), 2.8 million children and adolescents aged 4 to 17 are out of school. More than half (53 percent) come from households whose income per capita does not exceed half the minimum wage, a value of 477 reais (~$123 USD). While Brazil is in the top ten economies in the world, there are still millions of people in the northeast of the country who are in extreme poverty. REUTERS/Nacho Doce - RC15CA4A30B0

The use of 21st century skills assessment data: National and global perspectives

Ross Turner, Claire Scoular, and Alvin Vista

Thursday, December 13, 2018

Refugee schoolchildren receive their new books on the first day of the new school year at one of the UNRWA schools at a Palestinian refugee camp al Wehdat, in Amman, Jordan, September 1, 2016. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed - S1AETYUGDXAA

Monitoring for 21st century skills

Hoda Jaberian, Alvin Vista, and Esther Care

Monday, November 26, 2018

A child attends a class at the Wangata commune school during a vaccination campaign against the outbreak of Ebola, in Mbandaka, Democratic Republic of Congo, May 23, 2018. REUTERS/Kenny Katombe - RC1B068B55A0

Progress defining the new learning indicators for SDG 4

Esther Care and Ramya Vivekanandan

Thursday, November 1, 2018

Pupils leave the village school in Tsagaannuur, Khovsgol aimag, Mongolia, April 23, 2018. People who are between 35-40 years old, belong to the last generation that speak the Dukhan language, linguist Elisabetta Ragagnin said. Together with the head teacher of the school in Tsagaannuur, she is writing grammar and textbooks in the nomad's native tongue to help preserve traditional knowledge, she said. REUTERS/Thomas Peter SEARCH "REINDEER HERDERS" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. - RC13671A99A0

Collaborative capacity building in 21st century skills assessment: Reflections from Mongolia

Esther Care, Alvin Vista, Helyn Kim, and Claire Scoular

Friday, October 19, 2018

A student writes down in her note book on the first day of school in Managua February 11, 2013. Around 1.6 million students are expected to start their new academic year, according to the Ministry of Education of Nicaragua. REUTERS/Oswaldo Rivas (NICARAGUA - Tags: EDUCATION) - GM1E92C0D4D01

Use of data from 21st century skills assessments: Issues and key principles

Alvin Vista, Helyn Kim, and Esther Care

Thursday, October 18, 2018

A teacher leads a class session at the ecole primaire Ave Marie in Burundi's capital Bujumbura, April 24, 2015. Nearly three years after Taliban gunmen shot Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, the teenage activist last week urged world leaders gathered in New York to help millions more children go to school. World Teachers' Day falls on 5 October, a Unesco initiative highlighting the work of educators struggling to teach children amid intimidation in Pakistan, conflict in Syria or poverty in Vietnam. Even so, there have been some improvements: the number of children not attending primary school has plummeted to an estimated 57 million worldwide in 2015, the U.N. says, down from 100 million 15 years ago. Reuters photographers have documented learning around the world, from well-resourced schools to pupils crammed into corridors in the Philippines, on boats in Brazil or in crowded classrooms in Burundi. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya PICTURE 18 OF 47 FOR WIDER IMAGE STORY "SCHOOLS AROUND THE WORLD"SEARCH "EDUCATORS SCHOOLS" FOR ALL IMAGES - GF10000226443

21st century skills in 20th century classrooms

Esther Care, Helyn Kim, and Claire Scoular

December 1, 2017