Facebooks grundare Mark Zuckerberg pumpar in 120 miljoner dollar, motsvarande 800 miljoner kronor, i skolorna i sitt hemområde San Francisco Bay i Kalifornien.
In Finland, teachers are respected and students don’t take a mountain of standardized tests. In fact, they take one high-stakes standardized test, as explained here by Pasi Sahlberg, a visiting professor at Harvard Graduate School of Education and former director general at the Finland’s Ministry of Education.
Bullying is less of a problem in schools with principals or headmasters who have the confidence of their pupils and teachers. The head of the school can set the standard for acceptable behaviour.
The secrets of some of the highest-performing lower decile schools have been unlocked in an attempt to address one of the biggest problems in New Zealand education.
Students prefer to communicate with universities via social networks such as Twitter rather than email, which they see as outdated and slow, according to a leading vice-chancellor.