It has been almost a month now since COVID-19 sent everyone home for an extended weekend. Thankfully, you and I have homes and families to be with during a time that feels uncertain at best. For the last few weeks, many families have been managing the schooling needs of their kids, as well as their...
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Author's goddaughter and her sisters being homeschooled. Credit: Christopher Plantener
Remember the days when you might have thought homeschooling was a concept only hippies or recluses could embrace? When you thought, “no way would I keep my kids home all day”? Does it seem like a long time ago that you...
Annual Report written by Arandeep Degun (AIWC Cologne); edited for website publication by Carol-Lyn McKelvey (AIWC Cologne, FAUSA)
Remaining true to the mission statement, “Increasing Awareness of Global Issues in Education,” in 2019, the Education Team continued their reasearch and outreach within four areas of SDG 4: Global Citizenship (SDG 4.7), Literacy (SDG 4.6), Equal Access (SDGs 4.2 & 4.5) and...
by Arandeep Degun
To wrap up the education system successes, challenges and opportunities in our Countries from A-Z series, here are informative and interesting links to the remaining countries beginning with the letters U, V, Y and Z. There are no sovereign countries beginning with W or X.
https://borgenproject.org/top-8-facts-about-education-in-uzbekistan/
https://borgenproject.org/education-in-venezuela/
https://borgenproject.org/tag/education-in-yemen/
https://www.globalpartnership.org/country/zambia
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by Karen Boeker
"Despite universal recognition of the right to education for everyone, girls are still more likely than boys never to attend school," states a United Nations report on girls’ education.1
The problem of not being able to provide a proper primary and secondary school education for all children still exists in the world. Despite the fact that it is...
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by Arandeep Degun
Tanzania is a country in East Africa, including the three spice islands of Zanzibar, Mafia and Pemba. Tanzania is located immediately south of the Equator. The country is the site of Africa’s highest and lowest points: Mount Kilimanjaro (5,895 meters) above sea level and the Bed of Lake Tanganyika (352 meters) below sea level, respectively. The literary...
