Progressive thinkers such as Piaget and Young have been squeezed out of the teacher-training curriculum, as first the Tories and now Labour have insisted that courses put more emphasis on practical teaching tips.

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After finalizing the National Curriculum Framework Document, UNESCO is now working with the Ministry of Education to provide specialized training to develop Science and Math Curriculum Documents upon which to base the production of new quality school textbooks.

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There are multiple sins here: an old-fashioned mindset, a lack of integration into the curriculum and evidently no training for the teachers.

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