Tag: Mariam Sambe
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Africa is Rising, They say! But is it really?
By every standard Africa’s economy is rising… Or is it? If it is really rising, how do we explain that 75% of the poorest nations in the world are located in Africa? That 620 million sub-Saharan Africans live without electricity? That 84% of the population in the region has no access to drinking water at…
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Out-of-Field Teaching – Consequences of teachers teaching out of their field of study
Teachers assigned to teach lessons in which they are not experts is a universal problem. In the United States, 21% of English teachers and 28% of math teachers did not take English or Math (respectively) as a major nor minor in college (Archer, 1999). They have had no focused educational background in the course they…