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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 16 May 2020 “Education Support Professionals Need Protection Now!”, by Rae Nwosu.
Rae Nwosu
As president of the National Council of Education Support Professionals of the National Education Association (USA), I have the distinct honor of representing Education Support Professionals (ESPs) across the United States. We are crossing guards, bus drivers & bus monitors, paraeducators, secretaries, custodians, interpreters & translators, cafeteria workers, and everything...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 15 May 2020 “Hong Kong and Its Education Under the Threat of Covid-19”, by IP Kin-yuen.
IP Kin-yuen
This is not the first time that Hong Kong faces a coronavirus attack. The bitter experience of SARS in 2003 which cost 299 lives (including eight medical staff) was horrible and unforgettable. That was the reason why HK citizens responded so quickly to the outbreak of a similar coronavirus and...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 12 May 2020 “Corona Crisis and School Reopening in Germany”
Marlis Tepe
An interview with Marlis Tepe, president of the German education union (GEW).
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 8 May 2020 “The Impact Of COVID-19 On Czech Education In The Present And Future”, by David Navrátil.
David Navrátil
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic changed teachers´, pupils´ and parents´ lives in my country very quickly and suddenly. It has turned the perception of our education system by 180 degrees. A question remains – how will the Czech education system cope with it and will it change the future...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 6 May 2020 “A teacher’s experience having to get to grips with online teaching in the midst of a global pandemic”, by Lisa O’Donoghue.
Lisa O’Donoghue
I sighed as I sat down at my kitchen table. To my left, a fresh cup of coffee, to my right stacks of textbooks, in front of me a fully charged Microsoft Surface Pro. Right, let’s do this! My fingers hovered uncertainly over my keyboard as I perused my notes...
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Democracy 5 May 2020 “The impact of COVID-19 on society in the Asia-Pacific region”, by Masaki Okajima.
Masaki Okajima
COVID-19 is spreading worldwide, impacting children, educators, parents and, most seriously, vulnerable people. The pandemic has affected over 1.5 billion learners in 192 countries in the world. School closures affect over 91% of the world’s enrolled student population and teaching personnel. Most countries in Asia-Pacific have been taking measures to...
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Equity and inclusion 29 April 2020 “Transforming economies and the financing of public education post-COVID”, by David Archer.
David Archer
Public health and public education systems that have been underfunded for a generation are being overwhelmed by COVID-19. We are just now beginning to see the scale of the impact this will have on low income countries and on girls and women in particular. Much of the burden of caring...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 29 April 2020 “What’s next for schools after coronavirus? Here are 5 big issues and opportunities”, by Andy Hargreaves.
Andy Hargreaves
No schools, no exams, more online learning and parents in COVID-19 lockdown with their kids. What a mess! People are responding heroically. Some parents are working from home, others have lost their jobs and teachers are creating an entire new way of doing their jobs — not to mention the...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 28 April 2020 “We are one world”, by Lily Eskelsen García.
Lily Eskelsen García
As COVID-19 pandemic continues spreading around the world, educators are being called on to teach, reach and comfort their students and guide frantic parents. Stories shared by my EI colleagues fill me with hope. We are all in this together. We will get through this crisis together.
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Democracy 25 April 2020 “Intellectual property in times of Coronavirus”, by Yamile Socolovsky.
Yamile Socolovsky
The measures taken by most governments to try to slow the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic have been varied, and in some cases inadequate or too late. But almost everywhere in the world, cessation of face-to-face educational activities at all levels has been the rule.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 24 April 2020 “COVID-19 and Education in South Korea”, by Hyunsu Hwang.
Hyunsu Hwang
COVID-19 is a world-wide fear and a tremendous threat in every area of our lives. It affects everyone in the world. The scenes being captured look very familiar to us in a sense. They look like scenes from movies, but sadly this is a real and unprecedented situation in human...
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Democracy 23 April 2020 “Optimism of the Will”, by Dennis Shirley.
Dennis Shirley
Covid-19 has changed everything. Like it or not, our world is just at the beginning of a historically unprecedented shift to new ways of being, thinking, and doing. The international educational professional will need to respond with its full ingenuity and expertise to this unprecedented challenge.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 22 April 2020 “We need new ideas to ensure education responses to Covid-19 don’t harm those marginalized”, by Manos Antoninis.
Manos Antoninis
In the middle of the turmoil that the pandemic has caused, two perspectives are critical. First, the upheaval has thrown pre-existing inequalities into sharp relief. Second, the crisis is the backdrop to a crash course in moral philosophy: we are all faced with stark choices, as solutions that help some,...
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Democracy 16 April 2020 "Teachers rising to the challenge of a global pandemic", by Steffen Handal.
Steffen Handal
In Norway, schools and kindergartens have been closed since the middle of March. Only children whose parents have a socio-critical profession have been attending. The Government has decided that early childhood institutions will open April 20th and grade 1 - 4 one week later.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 15 April 2020 “Coronavirus Curriculum”, by Felisa Tibbitts.
Felisa Tibbitts
The pandemic is stretching the limits of school systems’ abilities to deliver education with the assistance of technology. The struggles of local and national education systems are well documented, and leaders are scrambling to address an overwhelming set of inter-connected challenges to the well-being of students, teachers, staff and administrators...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 14 April 2020 “Teleworking for Teachers”, by Miguel Duhalde.
Miguel Duhalde
Argentina reported its first case of COVID-19 on 3 March 2020; by 19 March, the country declared a complete lockdown when the number of confirmed infections reached 128. In response to the crisis, the government adopted a series of health, social and economic measures to slow down the spread of...
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 9 April 2020 "World Bank shifts position on funding for most private-for-profit schools", by David Edwards.
David Edwards
In a sudden and far-reaching policy shift, World Bank President David Malpass has agreed to major reforms that include officially freezing any direct or indirect investments in private for-profit pre-primary, primary and secondary schools. This has been a critical issue for Education International for many years and has been the...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 9 April 2020 “What the Covid-19 Pandemic will change in education depends on the thoughtfulness of education responses today”, by Fernando M. Reimers.
Fernando M. Reimers
The Pandemic that is ravaging the globe is likely to cause the most serious disruption to educational opportunity in at least a century. The studies and lives of those currently in school will be impacted in multiple ways, some yet to be understood. Most immediately, because necessary physical distancing measures...
“What the Covid-19 Pandemic will change in education depends on the thoughtfulness of education responses today”, by Fernando M. Reimers.