IEN will be taking a break over the holidays and New Year and returning in January with our annual posts surveying the headlines reviewing the education news in 2024 and predicting education trends in 2025. In the meantime, please revisit some of our most viewed stories of the year. We hope you have a restful, peaceful, and healthy New Year!
Hirokazu Yokota on aggressive education reforms to change the “grammar of schooling” in Toda City part 1 & part 2
That is the power of the collective that can be known as “power with.” There’s close coordination between authorities at grassroots levels and schools, with monthly meetings between the village or what we call the commune authorities and school leadership and educators.
Looking toward the future and the implementation of a new competency-based curriculum in Vietnam: A Conversation about the Evolution of the Vietnamese School System with Phương Lương Minh and Lân Đỗ Đức, part 1 & part 2
78% of parents polled want their children to have cellphone access during the school day in case there’s an emergency. Some 58% said cellphone access is needed so parents can get in touch with their children and find out where they are, and 48% said contact is needed to coordinate transportation.
Banning Cell Phones Around the World? Scanning the Back-to-School Headlines for 2024-25
Scanning the headlines for creativity around the world: PISA Creative Thinking Assessment 2022
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