Accountability in the news
Recent blogs on the GEM Report’s World Education Blog related to Accountability in Education
This page is regularly updated with news stories from around the world related to some of the themes in the forthcoming 2017 GEM Report on Accountability in Education. The articles below are listed in the language in which they were published.
- OECD Blog: Building trust in exams, by Andreas Schleicher
- New paper: Do Tests Applied to Teachers Predict their Effectiveness, by Yyannú Cruz-Aguayo, Pablo Ibarraran, Norbert Schady, IDB Working Paper Series
- The Atlantic: Why Teachers Need Their Freedom, by Ashley Lamb-Sinclair, Educators must remain engaged and autonomous in order to do their jobs well and avoid burnout
- Ghana: International Literacy Day – Teachers Question New Licensing Policy
- Uganda: Govt to Install Clock-in Machines for Teachers
- GPE Blog: Collecting the right data to make education more inclusive, by Daniel Mont
- Liberia: Weah Promises Free Education If Elected President
- EI Blog: For-profit schools are cashing in on UN goals, by Antonia Wulff
- Niger: unions challenge the government’s teacher evaluation
- US: Who Gets Access to School Data? A Case Study in How Privacy, Politics & Budget Pressures Can Affect Education Research–
- US: Polls show growing support for school vouchers
- Argentina: Case summary- The right to inclusive education in Argentina
- Kenya: New system to track student’s progress from nursery to university
- Rwanda: Private schools in Rwanda close down as public schools become more attractive to parents
- Nigeria: New Admissions Criteria for Nigerian Universities
- Ugandan Govt Starts Verifying International Academy Teachers
- Uganda: Speaker Accuses Education Officials of Sabotaging Government Projects
- South Africa: Three Arrested After School Violence Surfaces on Video
- Uganda: School Inspections Don’t Affect Learning –
- Ghana: Teachers to Write Licence Exam … Before Employment
- Uganda: Govt Starts Verification of Bridge Teachers
