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Jan Sjunnesson Rao: Narrow focus on math and reading/writing skills and tests
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Blogging about education issues worldwide and in India. Sunday, 24 July 2011. Narrow focus on math and reading/writing skills and tests. In India as well as in Sweden, the desire to do well in mathematics and reading/writing has gone too far with the last two years (8th-9th) in Swedish middle school entirely about Math/Swedish/English. India has its 10 standard exam craze for same reasons. 3 March 2013 at 19:53. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). 0091- 956044 5378 (Indian mobile). Narrow focus on math a...
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Jan Sjunnesson Rao: Stockholm University invests in international students
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Blogging about education issues worldwide and in India. Friday, 22 July 2011. Stockholm University invests in international students. My former employer Stockholm university needs more students from abroad :. Stockholm University is not only one of the largest universities in Scandinavia, with around 50,000 students, but is also generally ranked among the top 100 universities worldwide. That makes it a great choice for prospective students in search of a vibrant and diverse study environment. " (. Recomm...
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Jan Sjunnesson Rao: Why some believe good teaching cannot be measured
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Blogging about education issues worldwide and in India. Tuesday, 2 August 2011. Why some believe good teaching cannot be measured. From Teacherleaders Network (US) it says:. Teaching is an extraordinarily complex and demanding form of professional practice whose quality is impossible to capture accurately in a simple metric". Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). 0091- 956044 5378 (Indian mobile). 0046 - (0)769000900 (Swedish mobile). Political and personal blog, mostly in Swedish.
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Jan Sjunnesson Rao: Modern parenting and the philosophy of children's learning
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Blogging about education issues worldwide and in India. Saturday, 13 August 2011. Modern parenting and the philosophy of children's learning. BBCs Magazine has a piece. Still I withhold my scepticism. Children are not cultural, but also mammal beings whatever the social constructivists and post-modernists say. Given that base, the modern parenting is at best harmless, at worse making the human species fade out into mini shrinks who terapeut one another. But I could be wrong.
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Jan Sjunnesson Rao: August 2011
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Blogging about education issues worldwide and in India. Tuesday, 30 August 2011. Debating school legislation and teachers in Delhi, again. Last week, Aug 10, I was moderating a. Discussion on teacher accountability through the Right to Education Ac. In New Dehli, India. I had done this last year many times as associate director of the School Choice Campaign at Centre for Civil Society. New Delhi's best and oldest liberal think tank. Chaired by Jan Sjunnesson Rao. Keep up the SCC spirit guys and gals : ).
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Jan Sjunnesson Rao: Apps and education
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Blogging about education issues worldwide and in India. Thursday, 28 July 2011. I knew it would come something like this when I got my dear Samsung droid:. Apps created by and for the academy could turn smartphones into essential academic tools for everything from teaching and citations to social-science fieldwork". Http:/ www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). 0091- 956044 5378 (Indian mobile). 0046 - (0)769000900 (Swedish mobile). Article in Education World (India).
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Jan Sjunnesson Rao: July 2011
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Blogging about education issues worldwide and in India. Thursday, 28 July 2011. I knew it would come something like this when I got my dear Samsung droid:. Apps created by and for the academy could turn smartphones into essential academic tools for everything from teaching and citations to social-science fieldwork". Http:/ www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp? Sunday, 24 July 2011. Narrow focus on math and reading/writing skills and tests. Friday, 22 July 2011. Jobs seeem to abound too:. Sweden (Eric...
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Jan Sjunnesson Rao: Recommended reading on teacher effectiveness
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Blogging about education issues worldwide and in India. Thursday, 21 July 2011. Recommended reading on teacher effectiveness. I met with one of the authors of the report linked below, Tara Beteille, here in Delhi last year 2010 at the World Bank. I was very impressed by her research into the links between teacher absenteeism and local political support in India. Here is more from her team found at. Susanna Loeb, Demetra Kalogrides and Tara Béteille. Http:/ www.nber.org/papers/w17177.pdf.
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Jan Sjunnesson Rao: Debating school legislation and teachers in Delhi, again
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Blogging about education issues worldwide and in India. Tuesday, 30 August 2011. Debating school legislation and teachers in Delhi, again. Last week, Aug 10, I was moderating a. Discussion on teacher accountability through the Right to Education Ac. In New Dehli, India. I had done this last year many times as associate director of the School Choice Campaign at Centre for Civil Society. New Delhi's best and oldest liberal think tank. Chaired by Jan Sjunnesson Rao. Keep up the SCC spirit guys and gals : ).
