Are education systems succeeding in transforming individual abilities into collective opportunities? This is what rankings ought to be measuring rather than reducing education to a few figures.
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Examinations help a country measure if its system of education is teaching the skills and knowledge needed to meet development goals.
My School is updated each year with information about every school in Australia to help parents understand “the performance of schools over time”.
The pressure on Tanzanian students to rank higher has encouraged unhealthy competition among schools
An education researcher explains how most school rating websites lack a key piece of information about school performance.
Imagining the ideal school.
The furore over Australia’s international ranking in science, maths and English obscures what we should really be focusing on.
The number of students entered for a GCSE exam a year early plummeted by 40% this summer. Before 2014, the number of students taking their exams in Year 10 rather than Year 11, particularly in English…
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