ONLINE ALERT No. 208 17 DECEMBER 2010

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AFRICA ASIA & THE PACIFIC CONTD. Education en Afrique : 50 % des élèves qui quittent THAILAND l’école, ne savent ni lire ni écrire Only Happy Schools Produce Well Rounded Leaders Walf Fadjri, 13 décembre School Management Towards Quality "The Direction of the Educational Reform in the 2nd Decade (2009- Seuls les enfants africains étudient dans des langues 2018)” étrangères Post, 10 December APS, 13 décembre Education Ministry planning for AEC KENYA The Nation, 13 December Free Learning - Quality is Now the Issue Plan to educate people about Asean,cross-border mobility from Daily Nation, 12 December 2015

TANZANIA TURKEY Brain Gym Programme Helps Slow Learners Catch in Turkish minister unveils draft of new religious Class classes curriculum The Citizen, 11 December Daily news, 13 December

UGANDA EUROPE & NORTH AMERICA Half of Children With Disabilities Miss School New Vision, 14 December PM to make native education a priority Globe and Mail, 16 December ARAB STATES Inclusive Education: a Model of Equality EGYPT Jennifer Johnston. Education Law Journal, Dec 2010. A lesson learnt the hard way in Egypt V. 20(2), 21 pgs. (ProQuest) gulfnews, 17 December "...education in Egypt is increasingly becoming a privilege reserved only for the rich" NETHERLANDS Innovative power of Dutch secondary education ASIA & THE PACIFIC Carla Haelermans. Innovation: Management, Policy & AFGHANISTAN Practice, Aug. 2010, V.12(2),12 pgs. (ProQuest) Ex-Taliban to start school programme in violent areas Pajhwok Afghan News, 14 December /CARIBBEAN BOLIVIA INDIA La nueva Ley Educativa propone 10 cambios Introduction of Mandarin in CBSE syllabus hailed La Razón, 17 de diciembre Sify News, 13 December BRASIL Plan to boost civic schools Plan de educación en Brasil prioriza calidad y The Telegraph, 15 December formación Prensa Latina, 13 de diciembre Bank studies in school curriculum soon Times of India, 15 December CHILE Critican proyecto de ley educacional en Chile JAPAN Prensa Latina, 13 de diciembre Kids' academic ability can be improved more Daily Yomiuri, 10 December REPORTS AUSTRALIA MALAYSIA The Nature of Pedagogic Teacher-student Ministry explains revision in history curriculum Interactions: a Phenomenographic Study The Sun Daily, 15 December Beutel, D. Australian Association for Research in Education, 2010 Education Ministry Fully Prepared For New School

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Bernama.com, 16 December

"...implementation , in stages,of...the Primary School Standard Curriculum (KSSR)...."

REPORTS CONTD. MISCELLANEOUS DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Global Temperatures Metas Educativas 2021: La educación que queremos One of many other subjects from the NASA Earth Observatory para la generación de los Bicentenarios Consulta Nacional, República Dominicana Inclusive Education in Action Ministerio de Educación, OEI, Diciembre 2010 INTERNATIONAL EUROPEAN UNION The Children Left Behind: A league table of inequality Creative and Innovative Good Practices in in child well-being in the world's rich countries Compulsory Education in Europe: Collection and This report examines three dimensions of inequality (material well-being, education, and health) in child well-being for 24 of Descriptive Analysis of 10 Good Practices of the world’s richest countries. Creativity and Innovation in Compulsory Education in Français Español the EU27 European Commission, Joint Research Centre, UK Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, 2010 Guide: Primary league tables BBC News, 10 December FRANCE «Comportements sexistes et violences sexuelles : UNESCO prévenir, repérer, agir» Education counts: towards the Millennium Ministère de l'Education nationale, 2010 Development Goals UNESCO, 2010 INTERNATIONAL ICCS 2009 International Report: Civic knowledge, Corruption and education attitudes, and engagement among lower-secondary Education Policy Series, Booklet N° 11 school students in 38 countries Muriel Poisson, UNESCO IIEP, IAE, 2010 International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA), 2010 Gender and social exclusion Education Policy Series, Booklet N° 12 MEXICO Marlaine Lockheed, UNESCO IIEP, IAE, 2010, La educación preescolar en México. Condiciones para la enseñanza y el aprendizaje 50 years of combating discrimination in education INEE, Noviembre 2010 UNESCO Español Français UK The Case for Change Department for Education, November 2010 “Reform … to strengthen … school teachers and leaders. [and] …should strengthen and simplify the curriculum and …, create curriculum coherence….”

Evaluation of the Impact of the DFE Investment in

Initiatives Designed to Improve Teacher Workforce

Skills in Relation to SEN and Disabilities - 1st Interim

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Lindsay, G., et al., Department for Education, 2010

USA

Running on empty: The Failure to Teach K–12

Computer Science in the Digital Age

The Association for Computing Machinery, 2010

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