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Excluding teachers hinders education gains (Boston Globe)

MASSACHUSETTS HAS one of the finest education systems in the world. Our students are not only first in the nation on measures of math and reading, but also performed better than students in every European country on a recent international assessment of math and science skills.

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Excluding teachers hinders education gains (Boston Globe)

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S. Korea summons Japanese ambassador to protest Tokyo’s newly released education guidebook (People’s Daily)

South Korean Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan summoned Japanese Ambassador in Seoul Toshinori Shigeielate Friday to protest against Tokyo’s newly released education guidebook. In the 20-minute meeting at his office, Yu conveyed the South Korean government’s stance to the ambassador, saying that the government expressed strong regret over the issue. The new education guidebook has raised concerns …

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S. Korea summons Japanese ambassador to protest Tokyo’s newly released education guidebook (People’s Daily)

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ZIMBABWE: US$70 million to help resuscitate education (AlertNet)

Source: IRIN Donors have given Zimbabwe’s ailing education system a US$70 million boost in an attempt to reverse the rapid decline of a sector once regarded as the finest in sub-Saharan Africa.

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ZIMBABWE: US$70 million to help resuscitate education (AlertNet)

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Bonus culture ‘infecting’ state education (Guardian Unlimited)

Union representatives tell TUC that public sector risks rise in finance culture that contributed to economic crash The bonus culture is creeping into state schools as a result of market values being imported into the public sector, unions warned today. Education union representatives told the TUC that the public sector risked a rise in the very culture of the finance sector that had contributed …

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Bonus culture ‘infecting’ state education (Guardian Unlimited)