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I didn’t set out to write a book about freedom, or about the Black Atlantic. I thought I was writing a history of education in postcolonial West Africa. But the longer I spent in the archives in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire, the more one puzzle came to dominate my research: why did schools matter so […]
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For years, the EdTech ecosystem has been moving towards greater maturity. Researchers are producing stronger evidence about what supports learning. Governments are formalising procurement and demanding greater accountability. Educators are asking harder questions about educational value. Investors and philanthropies are increasingly recognising that scale alone is not impact. For the first time, the scientific community, […]
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In the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the New York Times documented over 145 instances of workers being disciplined or terminated for comments related to Kirk. Many of those workers were professors—and a surprising number were tenured professors. In other words, academia’s most elite workers were being punished or fired alongside “health care workers, lawyers […]
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“Improving”, “getting better”,” making a difference”, all are common refrains when university leaders talk about the goals of their institution. We hear versions of these phrases in conversation with university leaders from around the world, in large states like India and Indonesia and smaller nations like Kazakhstan and Chile, and at institutions across United States. […]
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Mobilizing Teachers is a book that shows how teachers’ unions have turned into powerful labor organizations that developed different roles in the political arena. Teachers’ unions lie at the juncture of two global changes that are playing out in countries around the world. First, with labor unions in decline (because of changes including automation and […]
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Are you tired of your reports, emails, memos, even social media posts going unread and unappreciated? Here’s the solution, with my five favourite tricks for writing which really makes an impact. Prepare yourself for a shock: Much of how you communicate is probably the opposite of how to get your content noticed, remembered and acted […]
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I enjoy writing articles and books that integrate ideas, which resulted in my most recent book Encouraging Innovation: Cognition, Education, and Implementation. The first section of the book discusses the cognitive and social skills required for innovation – reasoning, problem solving, creativity, group decision making, and collaborative problem solving. The second section discusses education – […]
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A key goal of international development in education One of the most important challenges faced by international development agencies, NGOs and government stakeholders in education today concerns the question of how to improve quality in education in low-income countries of the global South (e.g., UNESCO, 2017). While student enrolment has increased steadily in most developing […]
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