Education

School children attend class at Waterstone College, a private school managed by Curro in the south of Johannesburg July 22, 2015. South African private education group Advtech rejected a takeover offer from its bigger rival Curro Holdings, saying on Tuesday the proposal contained "unacceptable pre-conditions". Advtech's shares fell more than 7 percent shortly after the announcement that it had rejected Curro's bid, but pared losses to close down 2.93 percent at 11.60 rand. The shares are up about 30 percent so far this year. Curro's stock shed 0.83 percent to close on 11.70 rand. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko - GF10000166738

School dress and grooming codes are the new ‘whites only’ signs

Friday, February 14, 2020

Primary school students attend a class at school that uses a new unified Somali curriculum, at Banadir zone school in Mogadishu, Somalia September 22, 2019. Picture taken September 22, 2019.REUTERS/Feisal Omar

Figures of the week: Public spending on education in Africa

Thursday, February 13, 2020

People walk on the esplanade of La Defense, in the financial and business district, west of Paris, France, October 6, 2017. REUTERS/Charles Platiau - RC1B9BB86D30

Class Notes: Minimum wage and children’s health, college regrades, and more

Chenoah Sinclair and Richard V. Reeves

Wednesday, February 12, 2020

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Two unique programs are helping Nashville adults go back to school

Tuesday, February 11, 2020

Students walk between classes in front of College Hall on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., September 25, 2017. REUTERS/Charles Mostoller

Can leading universities be engines of sustainable development? A conversation with Judith Rodin

Rebecca Winthrop and Emal Dusst

Monday, February 10, 2020

A school bus sits parked along a street in the Queens borough of New York January 16, 2013. For the first time in 34 years, New York City bus drivers went on strike, stranding up to 152,000 students in the nation's largest public school system on sleet-soaked Wednesday morning. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton (UNITED STATES - Tags: EDUCATION CIVIL UNREST BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT) - GM1E91H00RI01

The Education Data Portal: Making federal data accessible to study ‘small’ student populations

Matthew Chingos

Thursday, February 6, 2020

Teacher Reginald Sikhwari poses for a picture with his class of grade 11 students at Sekano-Ntoane school in Soweto, South Africa, September 17, 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/Siphiwe Sibeko PICTURE 39 OF 47 FOR WIDER IMAGE STORY "SCHOOLS AROUND THE WORLD"SEARCH "EDUCATORS SCHOOLS" FOR ALL IMAGES

Rethinking the critical role of data to improve teaching and learning

Reinier Terwindt, Emily Gustafsson-Wright, and Jenny Perlman Robinson

Thursday, January 30, 2020

An empty classroom is seen during teachers' strike at a primary school in Warsaw, Poland April 8, 2019. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel - RC161453D540

We should be focusing on absenteeism among teachers, not just students

Michael Hansen and Diana Quintero

Monday, January 27, 2020

Florida A&M University moves up to No., 7 among historically black colleges and universities in the latest U.S. News and World Report rankings released Sept. 9, 2019.636646057260592110 Famu Campus Jpg

How to design a university: A conversation with Doug Becker of Cintana Education

Rebecca Winthrop

Monday, January 27, 2020

A teacher (L) leads a discussion during classes at a government high school in Muntinlupa, Metro Manila February 17, 2011. The Philippines plans to add two years of schooling to its basic education to try to reclaim a lost advantage over its Asian neighbours, but without a broad overhaul and more funding, the extra time will achieve little. REUTERS/Erik de Castro (PHILIPPINES - Tags: EDUCATION POLITICS)

Scaling quality education calls for scaling effective teacher professional development

Molly Curtiss Wyss and Jenny Perlman Robinson

Thursday, January 23, 2020