'fitted education' or not..

A 'nice' news article that shows how the part of ''fitting education'' (in where every child, also with extra needs and care must be able to participate at secondary education, although there's no extra money facing the schools) has it problems now already. The ''project''  of fitting education (passend onderwijs in Dutch) that will be initiated in the school year 2013-2014, shows it ugly face now already. Students with autism are not allowed to go to the school of their (first) choice. Read it  here, only in Dutch.

Research about the use of social media under primary and secondary school pupils

a (Dutch) publication about the use of social media in the primary and secondary education. This research has looked at 1500 students in the Netherlands. See it here.

Grade retention in Belgium

I came across a (unfortunately only) Dutch article about grade retention, read it here

Dutch school advice differs weirdly

Interesting. Just came along an article from April 15th about the advice primary school teachers give. It seems that the advice between pupils in primary education (on different schools) can pretty vary. With that, there's no difference in the pupil himself. Read the article here (only in Dutch).

So, when you're going to school X as a kid, it can happen that your secondary education starts way lower than when your parents decided to put you on school Y. Weird huh? The Inspection of the Education is at the moment researching why that is. Trouw (Dutch newspaper) says that in the four largest cities, the pupils most get a higher advice than is usual. 

Nu.nl (Dutch news website) reports that teachers are put under pressure by highly educated parents to give their kids higher advises.. Well. I've heard some things now, and I can say the news is actually based on the reality. I don't say it's a good case though!