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Kaleb Rashad, Executive Director of the High Tech High Graduate School of Education in the United States, brought a reflection on the importance of schools for democracy to the Oeiras Education Forum.
The 'essential learning' framework in Portugal aims to simplify the curriculum, but risks reducing it to measurable results. This text proposes replacing control with trust and the lowest common denominator with meaningful and critical knowledge.
The municipality states it is unaware of any cases of children and young people in the region who are in breach of Portuguese legislation.
Founder Helena Serra believes that a teacher can identify a student with high abilities and integrate them so that they do not feel boredom, frustration, or resentment in class.
The measure was already included in the Government’s programme and the ministry’s intention to press ahead was widely known. The curriculum review will come into force in the 2027/2028 school year, the minister announced. The union organisation says it only learned about it through the media.
