The Verband Bildung und Erziehung is pushing for teachers in Germany to be paid the same amount of money for the same initial education and qualifications when they enter the profession.
A raft of dramatic and controversial education measures including billions of pounds in new funding, a crackdown on student behaviour and a further wave of free schools are to be announced by the government within days, according to a confidential briefing paper seen by the Guardian.
No national standard regulates how much time students get to eat lunch in public schools, leading to concerns at some schools that students do not have enough time to eat their food, particularly if they must wait in line to be served.
A school in Melbourne is removing bins from the classrooms and telling children to take their rubbish home to encourage them to move towards zero waste. 'We are going to be in worse crisis if we do nothing', headteacher says
The rise of cellphones has caused reading and socializing to decline among teens, writes high school and college political science teacher Jeremy Adams.