Special reports

Schooling’s stagnation
Must try harder
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Schools in rich countries are making poor progress. They need to get back to basics, argues Mark Johnson
- Schooling’s stagnation: Schools in rich countries are making poor progress
- Teachers: The rich world’s teachers are increasingly morose
- Technology: Will artificial intelligence transform school?
- Soft skills: Efforts to teach character bring promise and perils
- Back to basics: England’s school reforms are earning fans abroad
- Schooling’s stagnation: Sources and acknowledgments

Schooling’s stagnation
Schools in rich countries are making poor progress
They need to get back to basics, argues Mark Johnson

Teachers
The rich world’s teachers are increasingly morose
Hanging on to the best of them is getting harder

Technology
Will artificial intelligence transform school?
The boldest visions for AI in classrooms misunderstand much about education

Soft skills
Efforts to teach character bring promise and perils
‘Social and emotional learning’ bundles good sense with some quackery

Back to basics
England’s school reforms are earning fans abroad
Countries that have made more fashionable changes have seen their scores fall hard
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Deglobalisation of finance
Worlds apart
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The American-led financial order is giving way to a more divided one
- Worlds apart: The global financial system is in danger of fragmenting
- Realignment: How crises reshaped the world financial system
- Cross-border investment: The movement of capital globally is in decline
- Transactions: National payment systems are proliferating
- Currency wars: The fight to dethrone the dollar
- Future shock: How the financial system would respond to a superpower war
- Deglobalisation of finance: Sources and acknowledgments