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The Power of Blended Learning in the Sciences

Oliver Dreon

Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780940017467
Publication Date: Mar 2019
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Practical AI Strategies

Leon Furze

Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781923116351
Publication Date: Apr 2024
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Practical Reading Strategies

Leon Furze

Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781922607164
Publication Date: Mar 2022
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Despite great progress around the world in getting more kids into schools, too many leave without even the most basic skills. In India's rural Andhra Pradesh, for instance, only about one in twenty children in fifth grade can perform basic arithmetic.The problem is that schooling is not the same as learning. In The Rebirth of Education, Lant Pritchett uses two metaphors from nature to explain why. The first draws on Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom's book about the difference between centralized and decentralized organizations, The Starfish and the Spider. Schools systems tend be centralized and suffer from the limitations inherent in top-down designs. The second metaphor is the concept of isomorphic mimicry. Pritchett argues that many developing countries superficially imitate systems that were successful in other nations— much as a nonpoisonous snake mimics the look of a poisonous one.Pritchett argues that the solution is to allow functional systems to evolve locally out of an environment pressured for success. Such an ecosystem needs to be open to variety and experimentation, locally operated, and flexibly financed. The only main cost is ceding control; the reward would be the rebirth of education suited for today's world.

Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781933286778
Publication Date: Oct 2013
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Resource Materials for Multi-Grade Teaching

Dawn Quist

One hundred and three million children globally are deprived of their right to an education. These seven modules on multi-grade teaching were designed as part of a partnership effort to assist countries to achieve quality universal primary education. The modules were developed by Commonwealth educators and tested in Tanzania.

Format: Spiral bound
ISBN: 9780850928266
Publication Date: Sep 2005
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