The latest lawsuit challenging New Hampshire’s school funding model hinges on a key question: How much must the state pay to provide a constitutionally adequate education?
Testimony Tuesday by Department of Education Commissioner Frank Edelblut suggests that the answer may be difficult for a judge to lock down.
During more than an hour of questioning in Rockingham County Superior Court, Edelblut declined to outline which education services he believes the state is required to uphold in order to meet the adequacy standards. That standard was set by the state Supreme Court in the 1992 Claremont I decision, in which the… Read More
Analysis reflective reports
Contact information was available for 39 students, who were all invited to share their reflective reports (Fig. 1). A total of 33 students gave permission to analyze their reports (85%). Reports on the tropical medicine internship, public health internship and the combination internship were all taken into account. The period in which the IHEs took place was from July 2017 to February 2019. Internships took place in the following countries: Ghana, Indonesia, Malawi, Mozambique, Nepal, Nicaragua, Uganda, Surinam, Tanzania, Zambia and South Africa.
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Inclusion of reflective reports
Deductive analysis of provided 20 categories of possible… Read More
By David Rapp, University of Mannheim, Class of 2021, Working Student, SAP SE
As we marked the International Day of Education in a year that has disrupted education like no other, I considered the value of education as we once defined it.
Higher Education in particular, has been left exposed, for if the education can be delivered online, and tutorials given over Zoom, then how can the high fees remain justified?
As a current student in higher education, I consider the thought that across higher education, there are numerous factors that drive the definition of what constitutes “good” education. Students… Read More
Jakarta. Miklos Sunario, the founder of education tech startup EduBeyond, said in a recent forum at the United Nations headquarters in New York that the use of artificial intelligence could change the definition of education from what we think it is today.
The Indonesian-born entrepreneur said that the old-school education system uses a similar approach for students with different needs and capabilities.
During the Jan. 31 UN forum, he identified the first crisis in education as “this idea that education is one-size-fits-all”.
“Whether you belong to the 2.3 percent who have a learning disability, or the 80 percent who find… Read More
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This year brought big shifts for education in Chicago and Illinois. As schools continued to return to normal and recover from the COVID pandemic’s impact on learning, the city elected a new mayor who appointed a new school board.
Schools grappled with a wave of migrants, who partly helped stave off continued enrollment declines, and the district entered a third straight year of transportation problems.
As we approach the end of 2023 and look ahead to 2024, here are six of the biggest education… Read More
An antisemitism definition adopted by most UK universities has come under fire in a report, which says it has led to 40 cases being brought against students, academics, unions, and societies – 38 of whom have been cleared.
The remaining two cases have yet to conclude, meaning that none of the allegations – all based on the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition – have been substantiated, according to the analysis by the European Legal Support Center (ELSC) and the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (Brismes).
The IHRA definition has been adopted by a majority of universities, with the… Read More
