The obsession with results harms children’s education

Independent - A report by the think-tank Civitas is the latest study to suggest a growing number of schools are “gaming” the exam system in order to flatter their performance in Government-published statistics.

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The Marathon Man of Pop

NY Times - Four decades into a career as the sequined king of soft rock, celebrated in his 1970s peak as much for his rakish growl and helmet of wavy hair as for hits like “Sweet Caroline” and “Song Sung Blue,” Neil Diamond is enjoying something of a career renaissance.

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Izvori nejednakosti u obrazovanju

H-Alter - Istraživanja su pokazala kako sudjelovanje u predškolskom obrazovanju ima snažan pozitivan utjecaj na obrazovno postignuće, pozitivan utjecaj na ostanak pojedinaca u obrazovnom sustavu nakon obaveznog školovanja te na kasnije sudjelovanje u programima cjeloživotnog obrazovanja. Također se pokazalo da predškolsko obrazovanje može značajno umanjiti djelovanje razlika u obiteljskom porijeklu i socioekonomskom statusu.

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Druga slika maršala

Večernje novosti -  “MEDITERANSKI redatelj” kako sebe naziva Lordan Zafranović između igranih ostvarenja, vraća se staroj ljubavi dokumentarnom filmu. Do Nove godine završiće film i TV seriju o Titu, za koju su zainteresovani i Bi-Bi-Si i Kanal plus. Ovom filmu posvetio je poslednjih nekoliko godina, istražujući arhive po Parizu, Londonu, Beogradu… a istovremeno [...]

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How Our Culture Keeps Students Out of Science

Chronicle, by Peter Wood - The precipitous drop in American science students has been visible for years. In 1998 the House released a national science-policy report, “Unlocking Our Future,” that fussily described “a serious incongruity between the perceived utility of a degree in science and engineering by potential students and the present and [...]

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Rock’n\'roll damnation - Wal-Mart style

Guardian - AC/DC are the latest band to sell their album exclusively in Wal-Mart. Are they helping to sell rock down the river? That a band who once sang For Those About To Rock (We Salute You) should now sell their fellow artists down the river denotes a very cold day on the [...]

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn dies at 89

BBC - Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who exposed Stalin’s prison system in his novels and spent 20 years in exile, has died near Moscow at the age of 89. The author of The Gulag Archipelago and One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich, who returned to Russia in 1994, died of either [...]

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