Right to Education Project Launches Online Guide to Monitoring the Right to Education Using Human Rights Indicators
Erica Murphy - @RTEProject
Thursday, 11 February, 2016
The Right to Education Project is pleased to announce the publication of an online Guide to Monitoring the Right to Education (‘Guide’) and accompanying Right to Education Indicators Selection Tool... Read more
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Rights-Based Responses to Non-State Education Provision: A Tentative Typology and some Critical Reflections
David Archer - @DavidArcherAA
Thursday, 21 January, 2016
The role of the private sector in education has become a very hot issue internationally and it has tended to lead to generalised and polarised statements rather than nuanced debates. Attempts to... Read more
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Separate and Unequal: School Funding in ‘Post-Racial’ America
Katherine Rose
Tuesday, 12 January, 2016
In 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court held that a public school funding system based primarily on local property tax revenues does not violate the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause nor does it... Read more
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Where Does the Right to Education Stop?
Elin Martinez - @Martinez_Elin
Monday, 14 December, 2015
Have you ever heard children telling you they want their education to stop when they reach the end of primary school?I have interviewed hundreds of children in many countries and not a single one of... Read more
Litigating the Right to Education in the United States
Michael Rebell - @EduEquity
Friday, 11 December, 2015
Lawsuits challenging state methods of funding public schools have been launched in 45 of the 50 states over the past 40 years, and in recent years they have been extraordinarily successful. Since... Read more
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#TextbooksMatter 3: The Supreme Court of Appeal Rules That #TextbooksMatter
Basic Education For All - @BEFA_SA
Thursday, 3 December, 2015
On Tuesday 2 December 2015 a full bench of the Supreme Court of Appeal delivered a beautiful, globally significant judgment. In essence it said that the Department of Basic Education’s (DBE) failure... Read more
#TextbooksMatter 2: On Textbooks and the Standard of Perfection
Kate Paterson - @BEFA_SA
Thursday, 19 November, 2015
On 24 November 2015 the Department of Basic Education (“DBE”) will argue before the Supreme Court of Appeal that delivery of textbooks to each learner in South Africa for each of their subjects... Read more
#TextbooksMatter: Why Textbooks are a Crucial Part of Every Child’s Learning Journey
Faranaaz Veriava - @BEFA_SA
Thursday, 12 November, 2015
South Africa’s education system is widely accepted to be in crisis. An alarming number of its children are functionally illiterate and innumerate. Many schools lack equipment, infrastructure and even... Read more
Low-Fee Private Schools and U.S. Charter Schools: Two Faces of Non-Traditional Private Education
Kevin Murray and Aja Watkins - @PHRGE
Monday, 2 November, 2015
The global trend toward the privatisation of public education over the past two decades is now widely recognised. While a confluence of many factors—including disinvestment in public education and... Read more
How Can Regulations of Private Actors Ensure the Right to Education in the Post-2015 Setting?
Erica Murphy and Meggan Le Quintrec - @RTEProject
Friday, 30 October, 2015
Confronting the growth of private actors in education does not only mean identifying problems but also reflecting on solutions that allow for private actors to play a positive role.The Right to... Read more
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