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Between May and September, over 1000 Chinese students have been denied US Visas to study in the US (at a far larger rate than other countries). Chinese international students also play an important role in US economy, being 1/3 of total international students, making up $14.9 billion.

Biden's plan to provide $10,000 of relief towards student loans for people who make less than $125,000/year, and an additional $10,000 to those who received Pell Grants (a federal tuition grant which maxes out at a little under $7,000) sparked controversy. Critics say that the plan will put yet another burden on tax payers, and raise inflation, while supporters maintain that the restart of student loan payments (which have been paused since the start of the pandemic) will essentially counteract this potential risk.

Interesting topic, lots of money involved. Do you have a stance on whether the loans are a good idea or not?

This article addresses China's view of education and how it should be implemented. The main political party, the Chinese Communist Party, is attempting to implement a mandatory teachers manual by 2015. The manual gives specific instruction on how and what to teach Chinese students. However, the manual did not experience the same support it did in the Communist party. Heavy criticism of the manual arose from the education Bureau and the students themselves. A hunger strike arose on Friday and a march of 32-90 thousand protesting the manual. The article is important because is it address a nation's view of education and how education should be controlled by politics. The Article also shows how a major political party can not always be the most popular with the people.

Interesting. Of course, China is a communist country, so it is also interesting that citizens feel empowered to protest. Among democratic regimes, France also has a very scripted education program: my understanding is that the daily curriculum for the whole country is set by the Education ministry, so no matter where you are in France on September 4, you will be doing the same thing as all students in your grade everywhere else in the country. Why does this fly there? Why is it much less likely to fly here in the US?

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.

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.

I am always drawn to articles that highlight young people being involved in their local governments. They seem to be the most relevant to me and my peers' lives. This article is super interesting because it gave me a lot of information I didn't know regarding Chinese government. The main speaker/ activist at this riot was apparently a small 17 year old boy accompanied by hundreds of students fighting for a democratic election in 2017. You could tell from his words how passionate he was about the topic: "Hong Kong's future belongs to you, you and you..I want to tell C.Y. Leung and Xi Jinping that the mission of fighting for universal suffrage does not rest upon the young people, it is everyone's responsibility..I don't want the fight for democracy to be passed down to the next generation. This is our responsibility." This article was inspiring and reminded me how deeply current political decisions affect the youth; this is why I think it is important for us to at least be educated about all of the crazy world politics going on around us outside of this "American bubble" we continue to contently live in.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

I found this topic fascinating because it addresses the internal Chinese conflict of democracy and communism. The general public (those not in the communist party and not in control) is not happy with the governments plan to initiate a national education system. With the national education system teachers and schools will no longer have the choice on how to teach their students. This article questions Communism, Democracy, Nationalism, and Patriotism, all of which are important to China.

This article, paired with a video, gives a good on sight view of what is happening at the "Occupy Central" riots. The article does a good job of showing how there are two sides among the protestors, those who are willing to stay and possibly risk their lives so that there will be democratic reforms for the upcoming election, and those who do not believe that the issue is worth risking their lives for.

VIENNA - At the migration center in the east wing of the main train station here, Ragad al-Rachid, a petite 19-year-old psychology student and a Syrian Muslim, is immersed in the logistical details of helping dozens of people a day adjust to new lives in her adopted country.

This is a great follow up to our discussion in class about how closed off NK might or might not be. Can any country actually maintain a wall that is impermeable to information? This suggests not. Good find, Catherine! Quotes follow: "Conventional wisdom holds that the people of North Korea are trapped in a world of rigid conformity, totalitarian discipline and complete isolation from the rest of the world. But increasingly another picture is emerging: North Koreans are far more aware of the outside world, according to evidence provided by North Korean refugees, South Korean humanitarian aid workers, Chinese traders and others. "One of the most underrated realities about North Korea is its very dynamic relationship with China, and the amount of information that flows across that border. Students; business people; it's a continuous stream of traffic," he says. With that traffic come thousands of DVDs, CDs, cellular telephones, used computers and videotapes - many of them from China and South Korea."