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Education Minister Dr Michael Dowlath says while progress has been made in reducing disruptions outside the classroom, troubling new data shows behavioural issues are increasingly occurring during instructional time.
He has described the shift in schools across the country as critical, prompting revisions to the Ministry of Education’s National School Code of Conduct (NSCC).
“The most important thing we are looking at is to guard instructional time, to use as many measures as possible to maximise students’ time in the classroom. What we need is a disciplined classroom,” Dr Dowlath said yesterday, during the launch of the updated at the ministry’s head office in Port-of-Spain.
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