Nearly four in 10 eighth graders scored below “basic” on the Nation’s Report Card, reaching historic lows. Fortunately, the math crisis is perhaps “one of the most fixable” issues in American education, new research suggests.

Den här rapporten undersöker hur elevers gymnasieutbildning och arbetsmarknadsutfall påverkades av förändringar i det lokala utbudet av gymnasielinjer under 1970- och 1980-talen. (pdf)

Förändrat gymnasieutbud påverkade elevers studiegång men fick inga märkbara effekter på långsiktiga arbetsmarknadsutfall. Det visar en ny rapport från IFAU gjord av forskare vid Stockholms universitet.

"Når du spør elevene hva de kan gjøre med matematikken, får du tomme blikk".

This study explores the teaching of life questions at an Upper Secondary School for Students with Intellectual Disabilities (USSSID) in Sweden, aiming to enhance the educational approach. Qualitative interviews were conducted with eight students, two teachers, and a principal, analyzed through Symbolic Interactionism. (PDF).

This paper explores how teachers in a Swedish teacher “rebellion” group on Facebook discuss institutional expectations related to the use of time in teachers’ work. Drawing on a narrative research tradition, group discussions are analyzed as negotiations where teachers co-construct their own narratives about the teaching profession. (PDF).

This article, based on Miranda Fricker’s concept epistemic injustice to deal with human rights and social sustainability, argues that teacher education must address the twofold mission to both enhance epistemic justice for student teachers and to develop their skills to enhance justice for future pupils. (pdf).

 I strumplästen – på en heltäckningsmatta – gestaltar Linn Hansen naturvetenskapliga begrepp så att de fastnar. På Änglagårdsskolan i Göteborg kombinerar hon laborationer och forskning med teater och vardagsnära exempel i hopp om att väcka nyfikenhet hos sina högstadieelever.

The aim of this article is to explore the relations constructed between final thesis work and student teachers’ future professional practice. Despite variations in scope and format, the final thesis is an essential part of prospective teachers’ educational trajectories in many countries. (pdf).

Previous research has stressed the importance of a good understanding of mathematical equivalence. However, despite decades of research, we still do not know to what degree the theory of operational understanding can explain errors. In this paper, children’s understanding of mathematical equivalence is studied using answers (n = 1608) and written solutions (n = 340) to a large-scale test.…

A key to developing inclusive practices resides in teacher-student interactions; however, little is known about the details of practice at the classroom level. Through investigating what teachers and students consider as valuable in their interactions, and how their accounts can be understood in relation to participation, the purpose of this article is to gain insight…

This article investigates the work of music teachers within Norwegian municipal schools of music and arts. These schools are publicly financed but face low attendance. What is taught has implications for the extent to which students feel included or excluded from the school system, and teachers play an important role in this respect. In order…