Lively coverage of issues and developments in schools, colleges and universities, from what is happening in the classroom to national policy making, EducationGuardian is a weekly digest of what professionals and parents need to know.
We all know that there are horrendous developments in schooling -- the defunding of schools, the privatizing of education, the attacks on unions, and the ascendance of companies like Pearson who are taking over evaluation and testing -- all for the purposes of profit.
The paper A systemic-interactionist model to design a competency-based curriculum presents a theoretical model for the competence development in school.
Zwiers (2008) and Schleppegrell's (2004) work on academic language development in school settings have drawn attention to linguistic resources that we use to construct meaning in contextualized ways.
One of the first cross-national studies in early childhood education was the longitudinal Preprimary Project (PPP) (1986 2006), which was conducted by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) and related preschool experiences at age four to children's language and cognitive development in school (age seven; Montie 2011).
We draw from two perspectives on genre: Rhetorical Genre Studies, with its focus on the highly contextualized nature of writing, provides a useful lens through which to view intertextuality; Systemic Functional Linguistics, with its explicit focus on language, provides tools for studying writing development in school genres.
Dancing Classrooms is a social development in school program that takes place in over 200 NYC schools and reaches over 25,000 children each year.
Given numerous studies support the positive effects of games on learning, a growing number of researchers are committed to developing educational games to promote students' 21st century skill development in schools.
Some officials blame such incidents on a lack of character development in schools.
Among the questions discussed was how to measure the value of language skills in the economy, and how to better support their development in schools and universities.
