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Testing pre-school children?
Important Australian research at the university of Queensland (October 2017) is showing that practicing all kind of skills in the pre-school age (4-7) is absolutely worth spending time on as…
The Importance of Academic Courage – a brief review
One of my absolute favourite education blogs is Edutopia (). In this post I shall be reviewing a recent post on Academic Courage. I don't mean being able to summon…
Teachers’ salaries in Europe
Statistics from the OECD on teachers’ salaries are showing interesting details about the salary differences between primary school teachers and teachers in (upper) secondary. (#indicator-chart). The OECD compared these salaries…
Make School About Learning, Not About Grades – a review.
A fascinating article by Starr Sackstein has just appeared in Edweek blogs. In it Sackstein describes a philosophy of teaching and learning that I can really relate to - the difference…