Education

It’s Time to Pay Teachers Better, Unesco Emphasizes

Danielle M. Bennett
• February 23, 2014

What can be done to educate the 250 million children, mostly in South Asia, West Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, who lack basic reading and math skills by the time they reach adulthood? The answer to this global learning crisis,…

Categories: Africa, Asia, Education

The US, as Predicted, Loses a Valuable Vote at Unesco

Dulcie Leimbach
• November 10, 2013

As predicted by PassBlue, the United States has lost its voting rights in Unesco, since it stopped paying its dues almost exactly two years ago because of a Congressional ban on support for any UN agency that gives full…

Categories: Education, UN Agencies, US-UN Relations

Schoolgirls Forced to Take ‘Pregnancy Tests’ in Tanzania

Barbara Crossette
• October 6, 2013

As reports of the scale and brutality of rape in India emerged in the last year, a secondary practice was also exposed: the high incidence of “virginity tests” by police investigators that doubled the abuse of victims seeking redress….

Categories: Africa, Education, Human Rights, Women

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The Glory of Self-Learning, Discovered by Children in India

Tala Dowlatshahi
• February 6, 2013

Imagine a new world of innovative, inexpensive and successful learning, where dusty streets in rural towns in developing countries are lined with self-powered computer kiosks and children from poor neighborhoods have the same ability to work with new technology…

Categories: Asia, Education

With Public Schools Out of Reach, Burmese Monks Teach the Poor

Barbara Crossette
• September 23, 2012

RANGOON — One of the most surprising statistics about the Burmese people is not that they are the poorest in Southeast Asia. It is well known that decades of military dictatorship destroyed the national economy and set human development…

Categories: Asia, Development, Education

Schools Fail the Youngest Where Population Grows the Fastest

Barbara Crossette
• June 20, 2012

Optimists in many developing countries are convinced that their expanding youth populations will be engines of economic growth in coming decades. They call this the “demographic dividend.” Social scientists and demographers in those same nations, however, are usually more…