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The Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) should not waste the opportunity to use its diamond jubilee, the celebration of which its president, Leighton Johnson, launched last week, to assert its place as a thinking institution in the vanguard of...
All that noise about those ‘Dunce’ backpacks has died down so quickly. On Friday, I googled ‘dunce backpack Jamaica’ and got 37,500 results in 0.19 seconds. A whole heap of people were nyamming up themselves at the start of the new school year. I...
There is little, if anything, surprising in the educational performance of Jamaican high school students in the assessment by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Rather, the findings are in concert with the several...
Last week, an international comparison of education efficiency punctured the public relations jag that we are being fed in place of substantial change. The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) report should arrest the consciences...
Former Minister of Education Ruel Reid is to be congratulated for having Jamaica evaluated under PISA – The Programme for International Student Assessment – conducted by the OECD (the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development). Another...