In the Netherlands, the latest results of the PISA study are causing quite a stir. The minister is responding ad hoc, and there are differing views on the ranking.
More important is what conclusions we as people working in education can draw from them, and what they tell us about our own day-to-day practice. What can we start doing about it today?
Six proven strategies that work in teaching: from linking images to words through to using assessment to strengthen retention.
“You feel it the moment you walk in: there is energy about the place.” A clear vision, translated concretely to your own site, is what makes the difference.
Carol Dweck of Stanford University on her research into the growth mindset: the idea that you can develop your abilities through effort and good strategies.
How the Dutch Inspectorate of Education deals with schools judged ‘weak’ or ‘very weak’ — and why schools are often positive about it afterwards.
VMBO students aged 12 to 16 spend an average of 3.5 hours a day online on their phones, mostly on YouTube and WhatsApp.
The Infopunt Passend Onderwijs, together with the Ministry of Education, has set out the main lines of the budget cuts to Passend Onderwijs.
