A 2016 ministerial task team found that, like in Mexico, the country’s largest teacher union, the South African Democratic Teachers' Union (Sadtu), ‘is in de facto charge of the management, administration and priorities of education’ in ‘six and possibly more of the nine provinces’. The general silence at the shocking state of our education system has, thankfully, been punctuated by the results of the 2021 Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (Pirls). The question now is whether the outrage will be followed by action.
A 2016 ministerial task team found that SA’s largest teacher union, Sadtu, ‘is in de facto charge of the management, administration and priorities of education’ in ‘six and possibly more of the nine provinces’.
A guest post by Martin Hanson: In the 1990s two American social psychologists, David Dunning and Justin Kruger, began research to find out whether there was any relationship between people’s abilities and how accurately they judge their own abilities. They used undergraduate students as their subjects, and their research was published in 1999 with the
/PRNewswire/ The 2023 Report on Condition of Education released today by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the statistical center within.