Education: Kindergarten Matters! - Aug 2, 2010 (1022)
Kindergarteners are gaining something very powerful from quality early education.These early school experiences may instill a belief in the value of education and a joy (or at least an appreciation) for learning. They may build students' confidence in their competence and their ability to learn. These students may learn important life skills, as...
So Why Can't They Read? - Jul 31, 2010 (693)
The Centre for Policy Studies has published a pamphlet on education that has been covered by the Mirror, the Mail, the BBC, the Telegraph, the Express, the Guardian, and more. Boris Johnson endorses it.
American business seeks incentives for educational investment in India - Jul 3, 2010 (601)
The US-India Business Council has expressed support for the Foreign Education Bill pending before the Indian parliament, but said certain financial requirements could deter foreign educational institutions from investing in India.
Congress could send billions to U.S. schools for jobs - Jul 3, 2010 (772)
July 2 (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress is closer to sending billions of dollars to public schools in order to save education jobs, just as layoffs rise in higher education and school districts across the country. The U.S. House of Representatives approved creating a $10 billion fund for school jobs when it passed a defense spending bill late...
Tools to improve education in emergencies - Jul 3, 2010 (495)
Ten years after the Dakar Education For All forum, the global educators' coalition, Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE), has launched revised tools to improve governments' and aid agencies' education responses in emergencies. Read more
Slumdog reveals learning treasures - May 22, 2010 (2079)
The education project that inspired an oscar winning film is now being tried in schools in the north-east.In the most destitute slums of India, many children lack any formal education. Where schooling is available, the classes are enormous, spanning young and older pupils and offering little one-to-one attention. It's an unlikely source of...
One in ten children 'lack the social skills they need to benefit from education' - May 22, 2010 (1042)
More than one in ten children are starting school without the social skills they need to benefit from education.Researchers warned that thousands of five-year-olds are 'nursery NEETs' because they are already significantly more likely to drop out of school in later years.
'One in ten children lack the tools to benefit from education before...
A fifth of children have never received a letter - May 21, 2010 (1344)
Young people who rely on email and text are missing out on the pleasures and benefits of letter writing, say experts.The survey of 1,200 seven- to 14-year-olds, commissioned for children's charity World Vision, found that more than a quarter had not written a letter in the last year and 43% had not been sent one.Child education expert Sue Palmer,...
Children do not get respect they deserve - May 15, 2010 (1650)
Policies that focus on children as simultaneously vulnerable and dangerous fail to acknowledge the social inequalities they face.In much of the UK's child legislation and policy, children are portrayed explicitly or implicitly as vulnerable, poor, in need of authority, troubled and troublesome, and caught in a cycle of risk. They are in danger,...
Meeting Millenium Development Goals - May 10, 2010 (630)
Are developing countries on track to meet the 2015 deadline for implementing the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)?Bangladesh has made good progress on primary education targets.It has achieved almost universal gender parity in primary education. The country's primary education system is regarded as one of the best among developing countries...
Obama Asks Graduates to Close Education Gap - May 10, 2010 (1127)
"I don't have to tell you that too many folks back home aren't as well prepared," he said. "By any number of different yardsticks, African-Americans are being outperformed by their white classmates, as are Hispanic-Americans. Students in well-off areas are outperforming students in poorer rural or urban communities, no matter what skin color....
Class difference - May 9, 2010 (403)
Poor neighborhoods around the world embrace a surprising idea: incredibly low-priced private schools
Grade-A ideas From virtual-reality science instruction to meditation for teachers, these approaches aim to reinvigorate education for all ages. - May 2, 2010 (908)
The current rage in education is STEM, or science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. But creative types are working valiantly to turn STEM into STEAM - with the A standing for the arts. At the Boston Arts Academy, for instance, the arts are infused in every subject. While creative pursuits are often the first to go when budgets are...