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There is a need to rethink and broaden the notion of lifelong education. Not only must it adapt to changes in the nature of work, but it must also constitute a continuous process of forming whole human beings - their knowledge and aptitudes, as well as the critical faculty and ability to act. It should enable people to develop awareness of themselves and their environment and encourage them to play their social role at work and in the community.

Jacques Delors (1996),
Learning: The Treasure Within

Teachers and the Uncertain American Future
The College Board and The Center for Innovative Thought, 2007
Early in 2005, the College Board established the Center for Innovative Thought to identify challenges to America’s educational well-being and suggest strategies for addressing them.

 

Testing to Destruction - Examination and Testing Overload
NASUWT Teachers Union, UK, 2002
The education system that young people and their teachers now experience has been totally transformed in the last 15 years. The introduction of the National Curriculum, and its associated Standard Assessment Tests (SATs) have brought unprecedented prescription and rigidity to that experience and put pupils in the constant spotlight of testing and examining. This report focuess on the issue of examination and testing overload in England developing over the last fifteen years. Many of the issues raised are now being addressed on a national basis in Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland following devolution of powers to national government arrangements.


BBC 4th Jan 2007

Radical reform of school tests
Every child in England should have their own "learning guide" to benefit from personalised education, an expert group has said.





 

 

 

The Bendheim Thoman Center for Research on Child Wellbeing (CRCW) is an interdisciplinary center at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Office of Population Research. Our mission is to stimulate basic research, educate faculty and students about issues related to children's policies, and influence policymakers and practitioners at the federal, state, and local levels.

CRCW supports two initiatives: the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a basic research project, and the Future of Children, a journal for policy makers, practitioners, advocates, and researchers. We also support researchers working on other topics related to child wellbeing and children's policies.

BBC News 9th August 2006: Test focus 'hits learning skills'
There is an ongoing dispute over the role of testing. Teachers in England focus on getting pupils to pass tests rather than teaching them the skills of independent learning, research has suggested.


 

 

An Index of Child Well-being in the European Union
Bradshaw, Jonathan, Hoelscher, Petra and Richardson, Dominic (2007) An Index of Child Well-being in the European Union. Social Indicators Research, 80 (1). pp. 133-177. ISSN 1573-0921

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Excellence in the Classroom
Teachers are so important to student achievement that, according to one estimate, a child in poverty who has a good teacher for five years in a row would have learning gains large enough, on average, to completely close the achievement gap with higher-income students. Improving the quality of teachers is thus crucial to efforts to raise student achievement , narrow achievement gaps, and reduce economic inequality.


 

 

Study predicts high failure rate under "No Child Left Behind"
Massachusetts education groups call for major reforms of "flawed" law.
MTA

 

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