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All is not so well in Kerala as Shirin Shirin says….
Shirin Shirin over at Asia Times blow up Kerala as a rosy, rosy state in India from where the world leaders can take some cue in surviving the economic crisis. Obviously he has cited the examples of education, health care and other social indices which we have heard quite a... 21st Centrury Classroom in the Hills of Dade City
"Twenty miles north of Tampa, Fla., turning east on Hwy 52, flatwoods of evergreens and monotony give way to rolling hills turned cattle land and valleys that hold December morning mists and wax nostalgic for...Maldives presidential candidate Ibra To “Throw Away The Curriculum”
"Presidential candidate Ibrahim Ismail (Ibra) on Sunday attacked the current administration over what he said was a series of education “failures”. Noting a 5 per cent pass rate in GCSE O-level English in...The South has a Good Story to Tell
"The fast-changing modern world is raising the living standards of billions in the South – China alone has lifted 400 million people out of poverty since the 1980s - but it is also risking the loss of many rich...Local SF Shelter Resident Puts New Books In Shelters- Without Funding !
Friday, April 4, 2008Shelter Resident Creates Libraries Inside San Francisco Shelters Without Funding !San Francisco has an abundance of talent, ideas, creativity and 'outof the box' thinking -- right inside of our own tax funded HomelessShelters. We have some great shelter... The Young Hardworking Poor of Rural Bangladesh
In rural Bangladesh, eight years old is old enough to start putting food on the table. That was the first, but not last, surprise in my recent trip to a rural village in Bangladesh called Madhupur. Madhupur is... BigT’s Roundup - Illiterate Kids, Chavez, Stocks, Clinton, and MORE!
Fine, America’s fourth graders aren’t actually “illiterate” but we are falling behind other countries according to a story from AP.
The last time this test was given was in 2001 and since then our scores
have stayed flat while others have increased. Now we’re... Australian Scientology Volunteer Ministers Join Grassroots Initiative to Tack...
A study published in a recent edition of the Medical Journal of Australia reporting that some 60 percent of Aborigines are chronic marijuana users brings home the urgency of this week's launch of Communities... Teaching Revolution Promises Solution to Dyslexia
Good news for children who have difficulty reading and writing, help is on its way.Updated December 5, 2007: Dyslexic children Project wins £3m funding!" A £3m programme to help dyslexic children who are... Children who can’t write their own name
" Forty per cent of children struggle to write their own name or to sound out letters to form simple words such as “dog” or “red” by the age of 5, government figures show. The annual assessments of children’s progress during their first year in school also show...
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Txts Hrtng Ltrcy: WTF?
The analysts involved in this study go on to assign a singularverb to a plural noun, but we'll let that one slide; evidently the ubiquity of SMS as a means of communication is reducing Irish schoolkids to monosyllabism. "The fatal attraction between Irish young 'uns and...Crunching the Numbers on Literacy – Scientology Volunteer Ministers in India
"According to UNESCO, there are 771 million illiterate adults in the world today, about two-thirds of whom are women. Nearly two-thirds of the world's illiterate adults are found in only 9 countries, and 45% of the world's 771 million illiterate adults live in India and China..."Race" to save Basque language
The race, or korrika, is a two-week long affair that endeavors to cover as much of Spain's Basque territory as possible. Racers stop only briefly along their course, and race even through the night. Money is..."Thinking for yourself" better educational strategy for learning
"Give college students less instruction and more freedom to think for themselves in laboratory classes, and the result may be a four-fold increase in their test scores."I won't be totally scientific in suggesting that letting students learn from doing in all kinds of courses...Despite Lessons on King, Some Unaware of His Dream
"In a recent survey of college students on U.S. civic literacy, more than 81 percent knew that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was expressing hope for "racial justice and brotherhood" in his historic "I Have a Dream" speech. That's the good news. Buy This Photo Zoie Jones,...
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