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Apr 4, 2024 · About half of U.S. adults (51%) say the country’s public K-12 education system is generally going in the wrong direction. A far smaller share (16%) say it’s going in the right direction, and about a third (32%) are not sure, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted in November 2023.
- Rachel Minkin
- Getting Exams Back to Normal
- Addressing Inequality
- Provide Support For Teachers
- Free Speech in Higher Education
The first hurdle comes next month with the annual round of GCSE and A-level exam results. This will be the first cohort since 2019 to have formally sat their exams. The Department of Education will be hoping that the exam results, which have already been taken and marked, will not cause such headline grabbing disruption this summer as in the two pr...
In November 2020, the Department of Education launched its flagship initiative to address pandemic learning loss in England, the National Tutoring Programme– which pairs schools with tutors who work with individual students or small groups to help them catch up in core subjects. However, the House of Commons Education Committee recently reported th...
The pandemic has had a serious impact on children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing and the problem remains acute. One of the short-term impacts of this is growing pressures on teachers in classrooms. For this reason as well as the rise in the cost of living, teachers are asking for a substantial pay increase. It seems unlikely that cu...
On 27 June 2022, before her promotion to education secretary and subsequent resignation, Michelle Donelan had written to university vice chancellors advising them to consider whether their membership of certain diversity schemes was appropriate given their responsibility to uphold free speech. This was regarded with concern by many in the education...
- Helena Gillespie
Apr 4, 2024 · Of the teachers surveyed, 54% said in five years the American education system will be worse than it is now, and 51% of adults surveyed said public education is going in the wrong direction, according to Pew.
4 days ago · A majority of Americans still indicated they thought K–12 education was headed in the wrong direction (51%), but a nontrivial proportion hedged by saying they were not sure (32%). Only 16% of Americans were willing to say things were going in the right direction.
Jan 9, 2024 · The US system places less emphasis on examinations, and students remain ‘generalists’ all the way through to the end of secondary school, when they graduate with a high-school diploma at the end of Grade 12 (the equivalent of UK Year 13).
Jun 15, 2022 · Education systems across Britain are "failing on every measure" and 60% of parents don't believe schools prepare pupils for work, according to The Times Education Commission.
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Apr 4, 2024 · Overall, teachers have a negative view of the U.S. K-12 education system – both the path it’s been on in recent years and what its future might hold. The vast majority of teachers (82%) say that the overall state of public K-12 education has gotten worse in the last five years.
