Group items tagged

In Japan, schools have been steadily improving their earthquake preparedness for the last 20 years. Since 2002 the mission of making schools safer has taken off. National government funding has been provided when the budget was exceeded. After the earthquake in 2011 the schools also aimed to become tsunami safe. Japan is now helping to fund schools in other countries such as Peru to make them safer for the children.

French economists have never been as renowned as French philosophers, but currently French economists are on the rise. Two schools are competing for the title of savior of the French economy. The Toulouse School of Economics is number 7th in the world and the Paris School of Economics is 11th in the world. Both schools recruit internationally and have their own private-fundraising campaigns. The Toulouse School of Economics is focused on undergraduate studies specializing in industrial economics, market regulation, and economic theory; on the other hand, the Paris School of Economics, is for the upper-level French elite, only accepts graduates, and specializes in economic theory, public economics and statistics. Competition between these two schools of economic thought has produced new economic philosophies to solve the growing debt problem in France. Where the general systems of French are too "rigid", the Toulouse School and the Paris School seek to find ways to create innovations for a new France.

The Los Angeles School districts are now requiring vaccines for children 12 and up. Children must be vaccinated by October 19, or they will not be allowed to attend in-person school.

I think that the Los Angeles School district vaccination requirement is good news, especially since it is one of the larger school districts. I wonder which other school districts will follow this example, and I hope that other school districts will join the effort to protect their student's health.

Good to see the vaccination being taken seriously ! ^And I agree with Julia: I hope other school districts will do the most in order to preserve student health.

In the past 16 years the World Bank has committed more than $2 billion to education in India. Attendance of primary school, which was the first goal, has dramatically improved, however secondary education is still struggling, so India is now turning its focus to that.

On Monday, Uganda reopened schools after the longest pandemic-prompted shutdown in the world. Schools have been closed since March of 2020, and despite attempts at remote learning, many students effectively stopped learning after classrooms closed and many students may not return to their education. Certain educators and critics claim the decision may have eroded decades of progress the country has made in regard to education. I'm curious what prompted the government to make such a harsh decision, and what impact it will have on the country's development considering many students are lacking two years of education and may never return to school. (Years of schooling are a part of the calculations for HDI).

I'm also interested in the long term impact of education in the shutdown but also on covid cases and how this move either helped/hindered recovery.

After reopening 1,800 public schools for part-time in-person classes, NYC is reporting a surprisingly small number of cases. In the first week of testing, only 18 students and staff members tested positive out of 10,676. There are still concerns that a second wave of the virus could shut the schools back down again.

I wonder if the little cases have to do with the fact that NYC was a major hot spot at the start of the pandemic. Nevertheless, I hope schools across the country follow in New York's footsteps so we can have a safe reopening and not further increase the rise in cases.

While more children are being schooled and the literacy rate is rising, MENA schools are not sufficiently preparing their students for work, especially considering the GDPs of these countries and the percent of these GDPs they are spending on education.

Swiss aristocrat founds boarding school for child brides in North Indian villages so that they may finish their high school education before being sent to their husbands.

A recent court ruling in Kenya states that Christian schools cannot ban Muslim girls from wearing hijabs as part of their uniforms. Judges state that schools must embrace diversity and non-discrimination. About 83% of Kenya's population is Christian, with 11% being Muslim.

FABRÍCIO LOBEL DE SÃO PAULO Estudantes que ocupavam a escola Estadual Caetano de Campos, no centro de São Paulo, desde a noite de sexta-feira (7), decidiram sair do colégio após a chegada da tropa de choque da Polícia Militar. Segundo a Polícia Militar, da gestão Geraldo Alckmin (PSDB), a diretoria do colégio acionou a polícia após estudantes terem entrado no colégio. English: FABRÍCIO SÃO PAULO Lobel students occupied the Caetano de Campos State School, in downtown São Paulo, from the night of Friday (7), decided to leave the school after the arrival of the shock troops of the Military Police. According to the Military Police, management Geraldo Alckmin (PSDB), the board of the college sued the police after students have entered the school. This article can be translated on google.

"Mr. Trump's Lost Cause takes its fuel from conspiratorial myths of all kinds, rehearsed for years on Trump media and social media platforms. Its guiding theories include: Christianity under duress and attack; large corrupt cities full of Black and brown people manipulated by liberal elites; Barack Obama as alien; a socialist movement determined to tax you into subservience to "big government"; liberal media out to crush family and conservative values; universities and schools teaching the young a history that hates America; resentment of nonwhite immigrants who threaten a particular national vision; and whatever hideous new version of a civil religion QAnon represents."

"Educate a girl. Send a young person to college. Restore a person's sight. By Nicholas Kristof Opinion Columnist"

Its interesting to see how domestic terrorism even impacts the most exclusive schools in the country. I have a few friends who had to evacuate and it sounded pretty scary over the phone.

This is good that the families will get a closure, but I wonder how it will influence the gun control laws and mental health awareness in the US.

On Tuesday afternoon, there was a school shooting in Oxford Michigan, four are confirmed dead, and several are in critical condition.

Brings up the question of the degree to which the government -- or, as some derogatorily call it, the "nanny state" -- can dictate our lives, along with the political power of children.

Overview of a project to improve elementary education in India I've looked into. Pretty cool because it mentions increasing accountability a lot as did the MENA article.

This article not only suggests that education in excellent public schools is beneficial to end poverty, but learning comes in the form of new ideas in jobs. Workers are able to learn on the job and apply these skills to an even better, more qualified job. Furthermore, the article says that equality is another key to economic success.

Terrific article, Sophia. Did you watch the accompanying video? Pretty darn inspiring!