February 9, 2013
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) – The new Minister of Haitians Living Abroad, Bernice Fidelia, acknowledged that she had a lot of work ahead of her working with 4.5 million Haitians living in the Diaspora. Speaking to reporters after the inauguration ceremony on Wednesday, the successor of Daniel Supplice said that she had plans in place for […]
February 2, 2013
Categories: Foreign Policy, Millennium Development Goals, Report On Education, Strategies
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Education and the Post-2015 Development Agenda | Brookings Institution. As the 2015 expiration date for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) approaches, the goal of achieving universal access to primary education is unlikely to be realized. Worldwide, 61 million children still do not have access to primary school and millions more are in school but not […]
February 2, 2013
Categories: Policies For Teachers, Strategies, Teachers
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Class Size Tradeoffs in the Court of Public Opinion | Brookings Institution. Budget cuts have caused increases in class size in states across the nation in recent years. Between 2009 and 2010, the pupil-teacher ratio in the U.S. increasedby more than half a student for the first time since the Great Depression. The nationwide increase […]
January 26, 2013
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Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Jan. 22 2013 — A $61 million dollar, eight-year World Bank community development project implemented across half of Haiti has successfully repaired roads, built schools and distributed livestock. But it has also helped undermine an already weak state, damaged Haiti’s social fabric, carried out what could be called “social and political reengineering,” and […]
January 26, 2013
Tags: NGO
Despite billions in aid that were supposed to go to the Haitian people, hundreds of thousands are still homeless, living in shanty tent camps as the effects from the earthquake of Jan. 12, 2010, remain. The earthquake devastated Haiti in January 2010, killing, according to Oxfam International, 250,000 people and injuring another 300,000; 360,000 Haitians […]