So often it seems that well-meaning efforts toward improving education not only do not succeed, but, in many cases, actually make things worse. In medicine, “iatrogenic” is the word used when ...

LITERACY RACE: In 1906, illiteracy among white North Carolina children totaled 45,000. This, combined with a growing fear of an educated Black population, led local residents to push for compulsory ...

Joanne Jacobs and Robert Pondiscio over at Core Knowledge blog are both skeptical about the practicality of former New York City schools Chancellor Harold Levy’s proposal that compulsory schooling ...

 The group says the right to education is a major component of socio-economic rights. The group, made up of 29 organisations, made the appeal in a submission it presented on Wednesday at the ...

Earlier this month, we had the pleasure of sitting in on the oral arguments in the debate over the state’s authority to regulate what happens in the four walls of New York’s yeshivas. The case ...

In educationist and board member of the Rivers State Universal Basic Education Board (RSUBEB), Mr Ugochukwu Worluh, has urged the Federal Government to make nursery education compulsory. Speaking ...

The Executive Secretary of Africa Education Watch (Eduwatch), Kofi Asare, has criticised Ghana’s failure to fully enforce compulsory basic education. He argued that persistent policy hesitation is ...

The Executive Secretary of Africa Education Watch (Eduwatch), Kofi Asare, has criticised Ghana’s failure to fully enforce compulsory basic education, arguing that persistent policy hesitation is ...