When a child has difficulties eating or sleeping, or throws frequent tantrums, many parents cross their fingers and hope it's a phase to be outgrown soon. But when they persist, challenging behaviors can follow children to school, contributing to academic problems, social difficulties, and further problems in adolescence and adulthood.
In a changing world that demands new skills, a vital concern of public education is the gap in academic performance between low- and high-achieving students. There is no excuse for the achievement gaps that persist among poor and minority students in schools today. All students can succeed at high levels, regardless of race, ethnicity and economic background. Several countries have successfully confronted inequities in achievement, demonstrating that any school can close achievement gaps regardless of the community they serve, and that all students can achieve at high levels when they are provided with the right opportunities.
Capacity Building for School Improvement: Revisited
This book presents a model of capacity building for school improvement grounded in everyday practice. It highlights organisational attributes and capacity building practices that facilitate improvement. Though patterns may vary across schools, the attributes, practices and themes identified in this book based on a case study of one school are considered applicable to other sites. Taken together, attributes, practices and themes provide a sound basis to discuss the hallmarks of a model on capacity building for school improvement.
What's the Point of School?: Rediscovering the Heart of Education
What's the Point of School? takes the reader beyond the sterile debates about City Academies and dumbed-down exams in order to reveal the key responsibility of education today: to create students who enjoy learning. With their emphasis on stressful exams and regurgitation of information, Guy Claxton claims that schools are currently doing more harm than good, primarily making students fear failure. Instead, schools must encourage students to develop their curiosity, ask stupid questions, and think for themselves.
Discovery School - 100 Greatest Discoveries - Physics
1. The Law of Falling Bodies (1604) Galileo Galilei overturns nearly 2,000 years of Aristotelian belief that heavier bodies fall faster than lighter ones by proving that all bodies fall at the same rate.
2. Universal Gravitation (1666) Isaac Newton comes to the conclusion that all objects in the universe, from apples to planets, exert gravitational attraction on each other.
