One Laptop Per Child (OLCP) program has teamed up with Microsoft Corporation to make Windows XP available on its machines. The new innovative machines are designed to be used in harsh and remote environments and are set to be distributed to school children mainly to those who reside in developing countries. BBC News reports that [...]
Advocates for universal schooling and for the “Education for All” commitment have gathered in Washington to urge federal lawmakers to increase the United States’ annual contribution. Education Week reports on the news. U.S. officials would have to double the nation’s pledge to the undertaking over the next year to “$1 billion”and boost it to $3 [...]
The Bush administration has submitted a written proposal to the Congress seeking to buy student credit loans. By doing so, the administration hopes to provide capital to lenders for new student loans and to make sure that the nation’s credit crunch does not prevent students from borrowing money for receiving a higher education. The New [...]
The ongoing war in Iraq obviously doesn’t allow the country’s school children and students to receive a proper education. This was one of the main issues raised by refugee advocate Angelina Jolie at a panel discussion sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations on 8 April. Education Week reports that Jolie was speaking against the [...]
Once the best education system on the African continent, Zimbabwe’s school system is now on the edge of disintegration. Outside the capital, at Mufakose 3, teachers leave their jobs to take better paid jobs. In the first two months of this year, 8000 other teachers have also done the same in addition to the 25,000 [...]
The British Government has come up with a decision to enhance Sure Start Programs since they help parents to improve relationships with their children. According to the BBC, Sure Start programs have local flexibility and services which include home visiting along with outreach. It focused on more than 9,000 three-year-olds and their families in 150 [...]
Part of the growing program, “No Child Left Behind,” the Reading Is Fundamental’s ( RIF’s ) Inexpensive Book Distribution Program, has been eliminated in the fiscal budget of 2009. YubaNet.com reports that the program is very important and has been funded by Congress along with six Administrations without interruption since 1975. “Since its founding in [...]