Around the World in 30 Days: September 2017
Poverty, Social Justice, Jobsolesence and how to get thinking back in classrooms were the themes that intrigued us this month. Our Global Teacher Bloggers are pioneers and innovators in fields such as technology integration, mathematics coaching, special needs education, science instruction, and gender equity. They have founded schools, written curricula, and led classrooms in 16 different countries that stretch across every populated...
The Global Search for Education: Poverty – What Would Teachers Do?
Ending poverty is our choice. All we need is fortitude; the will to say this will not happen in my community on my watch. The world is making some progress to end extreme poverty but there is still so much more that needs to be done. One of the most stunning statistics you will find on this global epidemic is that children account for nearly half of the world’s extreme poor. Even in the world’s richest countries, 1 in 4 children live...
The Global Search for Education: An Education in Africa
“When I visited a local village, what everyone told me — the chiefs, the parents, the children — was that girls weren’t in school because it was the boys that had a better chance of getting paid work in the future.” — Ann Cotton Educating girls is a very powerful tool for ending global poverty. Ann Cotton is the Founder and President of Camfed, a world renowned non-profit organization...
The Global Search for Education: More From India
“The challenges India faces are also an opportunity to move away from the two centuries oldmodel of schooling.” Photo courtesy of Murali Srinivasan. Is there a future for a US – India partnership in education? In his remarks at the recent Brookings Institute conference in Washington, Deputy Secretary of State William J. Burns commented, “We are counting on India’s rise, not just as an economic...
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