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Nic Spaull
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NicSpaull
Cape Town, South Africa
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Aspiring SA education-guru. Founder of Funda Wande. Senior Researcher at @RESEPgroup, Stellenbosch Uni. Digital repository - nicspaull.com
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David Labaree
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Aug 27 |
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Cadence a flow are important in good writing, and this means playing with sentences of different length. Check out this by Gary Provost.
#writingtip pic.twitter.com/0YwbOI8Z9O
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Nadia Naviwala
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Aug 27 |
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Ask why kids are being taught to read Urdu, English, and Arabic if they speak Pashto, Punjabi, Seraiki, Hindko, etc. Why do we keep doing this if its resulting in widespread illiteracy in schools & rote learning? In India, children are first taught regional languages not Hindi. twitter.com/UNDP_Pakistan/… pic.twitter.com/GSiz1BI9nT
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Lionel Page
@page_eco
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Aug 27 |
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When a scientific paper’s content doesn’t look at all like the exciting headlines.
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Anna J. Egalite
@annaegalite
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Aug 27 |
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In my intro stats class today, I told students the median is a ”resistant” measure of a distribution’s center & is often preferred to the mean in the case of salary data, etc. I jokingly referenced this meme and in the 15 mins’ break they had, a student created this MASTERPIECE! pic.twitter.com/TScgnV8dye
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Nic Spaull
@NicSpaull
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Aug 22 |
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Does this mean you've moved to South Africa? 😜
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Nic Spaull
@NicSpaull
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Aug 22 |
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Short article on the Literacy Lekgotla last Saturday highlighting that there are some important points of consensus: teach kids to read in a language that they speak and understand. businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/201… pic.twitter.com/kSOiPBmu8Y
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Nic Spaull
@NicSpaull
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Aug 22 |
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@DBE_SA is hiring for two positions: Director: ECD and Director: GET. Deadline 9 Sept 2019. If you fit the profile and are passionate about this APPLY! Details here: nicspaull.files.wordpress.com/2019/08/ecd-va… pic.twitter.com/PYWZxQsj5J
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Justin Sandefur
@JustinSandefur
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Aug 20 |
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“Brazil's secondary school expansion accounts for 34% of the substantial decline in teenage childbearing” twitter.com/daveevansphd/s…
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Nic Spaull
@NicSpaull
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Aug 17 |
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"Quality of program always explains more variance than type of program." - Prof Catherine Snow keynote address on bilingual education (or any program IMHO). Yes and amen. 🙌 #LiteracyLekgotla pic.twitter.com/IF7eTW9PSZ
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Nic Spaull
@NicSpaull
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Aug 15 |
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"Reading Wars and Reading Skirmishes: Back to our Battle Stations" - Guest lecture by Catherine Snow and Pamela Mason for our Econ of Educ course today.... Slides here: dropbox.com/s/n6uaon5ruec0… pic.twitter.com/lkbq2XVfPM
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Lee Crawfurd
@leecrawfurd
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Aug 11 |
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Kenya's new curriculum was designed for a high-income country with high parental involvement, high teacher skill and motivation, and highly equipped schools
Kenya is none of those things
standardmedia.co.ke/article/200133…
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Simone Schotte
@SchotteSimone
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Apr 29 |
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Our research on #SouthAfrica's #MiddleClass was featured in @TheEconomist! Check out this interesting piece and don't miss our recent @UNUWIDER working paper with updated figures for 2017. @roccozizzamia @MurrayLeibbrand econ.st/2J5kLsu bit.ly/2XWSKr3 pic.twitter.com/NW58ZOfu3K
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Nic Spaull
@NicSpaull
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Aug 7 |
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@IngridWoolard showing that in the most unequal country in the world (🇿🇦) the share of total income going to the top 1% has increased from 9% of the total in 2003 to 12% in 2015. @StellenboschUni pic.twitter.com/jDBS6qeLMQ
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Nic Spaull
@NicSpaull
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Aug 7 |
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@IngridWoolard presenting her inaugural lecture @StellenboschUni on inequality. "There's a lot that goes into collecting the data needed for these types of graphs. I calculated it costed around R300mil to collect the data from these SA household surveys." pic.twitter.com/eIpkwsOykz
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Lee Crawfurd
@leecrawfurd
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Jul 31 |
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"Education research is probably a bit like where medicine was 100 years ago"
*fire emoji*
"There are a lot of theories, but they have been validated in very small samples, often with no control group, & no idea if an approach can be implemented in a typical classroom"
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Lee Crawfurd
@leecrawfurd
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Jul 31 |
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"The single most important figure in all of developing country education" @karthik_econ @singhabhi
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Nic Spaull
@NicSpaull
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Jul 31 |
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@Powerfm987 @N_Mazibuk0 here is a summary of some of the international evidence on technology in education - there are sensible ways of doing it but 1-tablet-per-child isn't one of them! nicspaull.files.wordpress.com/2019/01/v2-spa… pic.twitter.com/9T5X0rE4wz
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The Independent
@Independent
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Jul 19 |
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Angela Merkel was asked if she supported the congresswomen being attacked by Trump. Her reply was to the point pic.twitter.com/J16vFojcts
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Hubert Mathanzima Mweli
@HubertMweli
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Jul 18 |
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Gr 12s, 1st year university students, GAP year: Become an expert teacher who embraces innovation and leads change through Jakes Gerwel Fellowship. Applications for this prestigious teaching scholarship closes this MONDAY. Click on jgfellowship.org to apply. #BeATeacher
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GlobalReadingNetwork
@GblReadingNtwk
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Jul 18 |
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Open Licenses do not replace copyright; they substitute “all rights reserved” with “some rights reserved,” says Neil Butcher during today’s @GblReadingNtwk webinar on Open Licensing Business Models.
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