A 1997 study of data from the University of Delaware found that across a wide range of universities in the US “education programs were funded below the institutional average for all disciplines” and at the more prestigious research universities “education programs were less well-funded than other professional programs, with the exception of social work and accounting”. The idea that quality teachers cannot be prepared “on the cheap” is getting a renewed look and gaining significant traction in the US and there might be important lessons for Pakistan to learn from this discussion. Read the rest of this entry »
Teaching is a Craft: A Case for Rethinking Education Programs
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Do School Texts Fuel Bias
April 12, 2009
An interesting article in the Christian Science Monitor recently caught my eye, discussing anti-Indian bias in official textbooks in Pakistan. Two contrasting view-points are presented.
According to Pervez Hoodbhoy, a physics professor at Quaid-e-Azam University in Islamabad, the “Islamizing” of Pakistan’s schools began in 1976 under the rule of the former dictator, the general Zia ul-Haq.
