August 26, 2014
Categories: Education
Tags: education, literature circles
Learning in a mother language (first language) is incredibly important to children’s further development and education. Early grade reading instruction should be in a language children speak and understand. When the instruction is in an unfamiliar language, an enormous amount of time must be spent first teaching children to understand, speak, read, and write that foreign language. This […]
August 26, 2014
Categories: Education
Tags: classroom, education, teachers
Education as a Fundamental Human Right First, in order for a country to develop, it must have the adequate human capital to do so. Second, that human capital is obtained through education. Third, that education is a pivotal part of human development, and can positively influence standards of living, health, and governance. Beginning in 1948, […]
August 25, 2014
Categories: Access, E-learning, Education, Lessons
Tags: college degree, equality, free access
At the online University of the People, anyone with a high school diploma can take classes toward a degree in business administration or computer science — without standard tuition fees (though exams cost money). Founder Shai Reshef hopes that higher education is changing “from being a privilege for the few to a basic right, […]
August 20, 2014
Categories: Recipients
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Why we need to support the Book Bank Program Ayiti Now Corp has maintained the Book Bank at Aemsa for the past 4 years. Notoriously the enrolments in 5th and 6th grade are much lower than the lower grades; one accomplishment of the Book Bank has been the one of providing a major incentive, for the […]
August 19, 2014
Categories: Strategies, Teachers
Adam Braun went to school in the US and now runs a nonprofit that builds schools in Ghana, Laos, Nicaragua and Guatemala. In contrast, Sugata Mitra—the winner of the 2013 TED Prize—went to school in India and now is a professor in the UK, where his research on self-directed learning routinely brings him into elementary […]