So often it seems that well-meaning efforts toward improving education not only do not succeed, but, in many cases, actually make things worse. In medicine, “iatrogenic” is the word used when ...
Singapore’s Compulsory Education Act 2002 (CEA) is an Act of Parliament to provide for compulsory primary education in ...
Consider a group of new sociology students who are about to dive into a completely new subject. Half of them are fresh out of upper secondary school. They need to settle into student life and get to ...
LITERACY RACE: In 1906, illiteracy among white North Carolina children totaled 45,000. This, combined with a growing fear of an educated Black population, led local residents to push for compulsory ...