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Uganda Triples Teacher Salaries — But Only In STEM Courses

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Mariam Nabattu, a religious studies teacher, must work at two schools in central Uganda to make ends meet. Patricia Lindrio/GPJ Uganda

KAMPALA — Allen Asimwe has dedicated more than two decades to teaching geography at a large public high school in southwestern Uganda. Her retirement age, as a public servant entitled to benefits, is just six years away. She doubts she will wait that long. “I am determined, I want to quit,” she says, calculating that she could earn more by shifting full time to the salon she opened six years ago to supplement her income. “Given the frustration, I cannot continue in class anymore.” For years, she hoped the Uganda National Teachers’ Union would succeed in lobbying for better wages. […]

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In The News

“Less Severe” Omicron, Suu Kyi Sentenced, Buried By Volcano

“Less Severe” Omicron, Suu Kyi Sentenced, Buried By Volcano
Mount Semeru Eruption Indonesia 2021 Kurniawan/Xinhua/ZUMA Press

? Xin chào!* Welcome to Monday, where Aung San Suu Kyi gets sentenced to four years, there’s some positive news about the Omicron variant and a one-time Bill Clinton rival dies at the age of 98. We also explore the growing battles between parents and teachers in Tunisia, once hailed for its “golden age of […]

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Teachers v. Parents: The End Of Tunisia’s “Golden Age” Of Education

Teachers v. Parents: The End Of Tunisia's "Golden Age" Of Education
In a Koranic school in Kasserine Chris Huby/Le Pictorium Agency/ZUMA

Violence against teachers, poorly received educational reforms, conflicts with parents: In Tunisia, the entire education sector is in crisis.

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Economy

Parag Agarwal & Co: Why India Should Stop Boasting About Twitter’s New CEO

Parag Agarwal & Co: Why India Should Stop Boasting About Twitter's New CEO
Agarwal and his wife Vineeta Agarwala, another Silicon Valley star

So a dozen of the top CEOs in the world (including heads of Google, Microsoft, IBM and now Twitter) come from a country with 18% of the world’s population. But there are other numbers our overly proud fellow Indians should be running.

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Teacher A Viral Hit In Argentina After Holding Student’s Baby During Class

Teacher A Viral Hit In Argentina After Holding Student's Baby During Class
Federico Tenreyro went viral for taking care of his student's baby Ludmila Disante/Facebook

A high school history teacher has won hearts and minds after carrying a young mother’s baby in class so she could do her work.

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In The News

Catholic School Must Pay Bullying Victim After Urging Bully “To Pray”

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The school on the outskirts of Buenos Aires Photo: Clarin

The private school outside Buenos Aires must pay the family of a student who was tormented for six years. Officials of the Catholic primary school had invited the main bully “to pray,” rather than taking necessary steps to keep the victim safe.

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Sonic COVID: Listening To The Pandemic’s Sounds And Silences

People walking in Delhi, India
People walking in Delhi, India Ravi Sharma

Particularly in mega cities like New Delhi, the pandemic and its accompanying lockdowns have changed our audible environment. What does that tell us about where we’re heading?

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The New Now

Suzy Amis Cameron: Shift To Plant-Based Diets, One Meal At A Time

Suzy Amis Cameron, change one meal at a time
Suzy Amis Cameron, change one meal at a time Official Instagram account

Five Questions for the former Hollywood actress, turned environmental activist on how a simple (and modest) change in eating habits can have planetary impact.

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Society

Streets To Schools: How Education In India Can Reach Everyone

A schoolgirl in Chennai
A schoolgirl in Chennai Timon Studler

Absent in India’s schools, which help reinforce power imbalances, is any real acknowledgement of street-level efforts to push back.

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How The Sexist Politics Of Hair Plays Out In Egypt’s Schools

Some schools in Egypt were accused of forcing students to wear headscarves
Some schools in Egypt were accused of forcing students to wear headscarves Axiom/ZUMApress.com

“I’m not against hijab in principle; I myself wear it,’ says one mother. ‘But I refuse to have my daughter wear it against her will.”

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Geopolitics Society

The Slow March To Emancipation For Women In South Sudan

In the country, 'oppressive patriarchal cultural norms are still in place.'
In the country, "oppressive patriarchal cultural norms are still in place." Nesbitt/UNICEF via ZUMA Wire

More than half of girls in South Sudan are married before they turn 18, and only 1.3% still attend school at age 16.

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Ideas Society

A Belgian Professor Grades Remote Learning: C+

University students during an examination in Brussels
University students during an examination in Brussels Eric Lalmand/Belga/ZUMA

The pandemic closed classrooms and pushed the education process online. It was a desperate measure for desperate times that avoided the worst, but shouldn’t be the norm.

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A Momentous And Wary Back-To-School Around The World

Students arriving for their first day of school in Belgium.
Students arriving for their first day of school in Belgium. — Dirk Waem/Belga/ZUMA

It’s just one of many images of schoolchildren circulating around the world this week, but it comes with extra symbolism: 1.4 million students returned to their classes today in Wuhan, the central Chinese city where COVID-19 originated last last year. Eventually, nearly one billion children around the world — and their parents — faced months […]

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Geopolitics

The Latest: East Jerusalem Clashes, Everest COVID Closure, Dracula Jabs

Russian tanks roll down Moscow’s Red Square during a Victory Day military parade on May 9 which marked the 76th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany during World War II
Russian tanks roll down Moscow’s Red Square during a Victory Day military parade on May 9 which marked the 76th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany during World War II Valery Sharifulin/TASS/ZUMA

Welcome to Monday, where fresh clashes rock Jerusalem’s mosque, death toll in Kabul school bombing tops 60, and Dracula sinks his fangs into COVID. We also look at the risks that go along with all the gung ho talk of the New Space Race. • Clashes escalate in East Jerusalem: A new round of clashes […]

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Society

In Eight Countries, Hard Choices In Bringing Students Back To School

In China, schools remain closed in most parts of the country.
In China, schools remain closed in most parts of the country. Ju Huanzong/Xinhua/ZUMA

When, who, how? Both the science and logistics are complex in deciding how to get  hundreds of millions of children around the world back to school. Here’s a quick tour.

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Geopolitics OneShot Society

Watch: OneShot — UNICEF: Back To School, Bravo Teachers

Detail of a classroom photograph in a displaced persons camp in Nigeria.
Detail of a classroom photograph in a displaced persons camp in Nigeria. Ashley Gilbertson/VII Photo/UNICEF

Holidays are over, and it’s back to school. Frightening or fun, this week marks the beginning of a new adventure for millions of children around the world who will be given a great opportunity to learn, make friends and thrive. This opportunity is made possible by the skills and commitment of teachers who dedicate their life to education and helping kids to build a future, for themselves and society at large. With this OneShot for the start of September, UNICEF France celebrates the singular mission of the world’s teachers. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/embed/18TPuP4QxGo expand=1] UNICEF: Back To School — ©UNICEF/Ashley Gilbertson OneShot […]

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Future Ideas Society

Making Space In The Classroom For Artificial Intelligence

Workers of Rome funeral parlors protesting against the situation in Roman cemeteries, April 2021, Italy.
Workers of Rome funeral parlors protesting against the situation in Roman cemeteries, April 2021, Italy. Matteo Nardone/Pacific Press/ZUMA

-OpEd- PARIS — We live in a society that changes rapidly, and we wish for schools that reassure us. Schools that are forward-looking, perhaps. Even our schools in the Third Republic that we refer to so often were anything but retrograde. On the contrary! The school believed in the ability of its Black Hussars — […]

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Future Society

Limits Of Digital Literacy: Why Books Should Never Disappear

Girl reading a book before bedtime
Girl reading a book before bedtime — Annie Spratt

It is telling that parents in Silicon Valley, who would know, are restricting and even banning screen time for their children. Meanwhile, the World Health Organization has just released a new set of guidelines on how much time parents should allow young children to spend with screens: Kids younger than 1 year old should have […]

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Ideas

Christchurch To Sao Paulo: Our Age Of Nihilistic Terrorism

Policemen arrive at the school where a shooting occurred in Suzano city
Policemen arrive at the school where a shooting occurred in Suzano city Rahel Patrasso

The white supremacist who killed 50 at New Zealand mosques is like other mass killers attached to myths of ideological identity that lack any real political horizon.

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Society

Educating Adivasi: The Side Effects Of School For India’s Indigenous

Young girls returning from school near Singari village
Young girls returning from school near Singari village Parul Abrol

“Why do we want to fit everyone in our narrative of what is civilized?…’

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China’s Overworked Students: A Government Responsibility

In China, where school's never out
In China, where school's never out Rex Pe

Facing severe social competition, China’s youngsters are under increasing academic pressure. Can a new government policy help ease their load?

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Fast (School) Food! Chinese Students Forced To Eat Lunch Standing

Feeding the kids in Qiandongnan, China
Feeding the kids in Qiandongnan, China Yang Wenbin/Xinhua via ZUMA

Chairs have been removed from the cafeteria in a high school in Henan Province. The reason: save more time for studying…

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Holy Vox Pop: Poland’s Youth And The Religion Age Gap

Praying in Krakow, Poland
Praying in Krakow, Poland Omar Marques/SOPA Images/ZUMA

The Catholic Church may have only itself to blame for failing to attract young people.

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In The News

Erdogan’s Purge Stretches All The Way To Pakistan

Erdogan poster in Lahore, Pakistan
Erdogan poster in Lahore, Pakistan Rana Sajid Hussain/Pacific Press/ZUMA

KARACHI — A Turkish family is rushing out to a weekend protest in this populous Pakistani city; outside the Karachi Press Club, Turkish residents release doves as a sign of peace; 25 Turkish teachers plea for safety in Pakistan. These Turkish families have lived here for over two decades, teaching at a network of international schools led by Fethullah Gülen, a moderate Islamic cleric from Turkey, who currently lives in the United States. In the last 16 months, 28 Gülen schools and colleges across Pakistan have been shut down under pressure from the government in Ankara. Staff members now face […]

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In The News

In Rio’s Favelas, Schools Caught In Crossfire

Daily life in Favela do Alemao, Rio de Janeiro
Daily life in Favela do Alemao, Rio de Janeiro Humberto Ohana/ZUMA

RIO DE JANEIRO — “Stray bullets invading Rio’s schools.” “Under threat, schools are closing.” “Students injured in shooting.” These were titles of articles published by Folha de S. Paulo, respectively in 1996, 2003 and 2006. But they would fit in well with the current outbreak of violence in Rio de Janeiro. Of the first 100 […]

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Indian School For Grandmothers Takes On Female Illiteracy

Modern education in Maharashtra
Modern education in Maharashtra Bismillah Geelani

They say it’s never too late to learn. A special school in the Indian state of Maharashtra is proving that in a new way.

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In The News

Make Room For Robots In South Korean Middle Schools

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HappyBreak headset @happybreakcl

For more than a decade, South Korea has been a pioneer in the use of robots to aid teaching. Now, the country will offer middle school classes in robotics.

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Fidel’s Unfinished Dream — Massive Art School Is Metaphor For Cuba

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The Norwegian Anti-Bully Method That Leaves No One Alone

The Norwegian Anti-Bully Method That Leaves No One Alone
No Bullying COM

A widely used approach in Norway to limit youth mob culture and violence has long been exported. Now look for it in Germany, following the July 22 attack in Munich by a teenaged victim of bullying.

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Migrant Lives Society

Glimpse Of A Gifted Refugee’s Life In A German High School

Refugees attend lessons at a vocational school center in Biberach an der Riss, Germany
Refugees attend lessons at a vocational school center in Biberach an der Riss, Germany Felix KäStle/DPA via ZUMA

INGOLSTADT — Math is the first class of the day. Only two students, who are clearly aces at math, are raising their hands to answer the teacher’s questions. Almost everyone else is dozing off. But Mahmoud, who is seated in the first row, appears to be wide awake. He does not, however, raise his hand. […]

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Society

Teaching Arabic In French Schools, A Weapon Against Islamic Extremism

Learning arabic
Learning arabic Abdillah Wicaksono

-OpEd- PARIS — The year 2015, an annus horribilis if there ever was one, will remain etched in people’s memories for the violent acts committed in the name of religion, of murder perpetrated in the name of Islam. Faced with the threat of terrorism, we’ve adopted new security measures for the long term, and that’s […]

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Ideas Society

Why Bullying is Getting Worse In China

Bullying has intensified to frightening levels at Chinese schools.
Bullying has intensified to frightening levels at Chinese schools. David Hwang

Amid more and more incidents of bullying in China, schools and the legal system appear to be doing very little to stop it.

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Ideas Society

How Educators Are Failing Bullies

Four victims in this photo?
Four victims in this photo? Thomas Ricker

It’s normal for children to argue and fight. But those identified as bullies are often suspended or expelled far too quickly. Why don’t schools intervene earlier?

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Society Terror in Europe

New Security Measures In French Schools May Be Going Too Far

School time in France
School time in France Lynette Scavo

Since the Nov. 13 terror attacks in Paris, reams of new government safety measures and orders have been issued to schools, where teachers say the atmosphere is tense and their responsibilities overwhelming.

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Geopolitics Syria Crisis

In A Ravaged Aleppo, Back To School Means Bunker-Style Classrooms

At school in Aleppo
At school in Aleppo Aleppo Media Centre/Syria Deeply

As students return to school this month in the rebel-held areas of Aleppo, they won’t be heading back to the same classrooms they left last year. Instead, they’ll be studying in basements and other “secure areas” across the devas

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New Study: Yes, Smartphones Are Bad For Children

Photo: jenny downing Despite the begging and pleading, some parents manage to put off the day when their children get their swiping little fingers on their first smartphone. Those parents are right to resist, according to a a new German study on the effects of all those iPhones and Samsungs on the brains and behaviors […]

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School Wake-Up Call: The Case For Letting Students Sleep Later

School is not the place to sleep
School is not the place to sleep Sampsyo

A new proposal in Germany to move to a later school starting time is backed by many scientists, even if it runs against entrenched social norms that rising early is virtuous.

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Impact: Education Innovation Society

When Chinese Teachers Meet British Students

A Chinese teacher at Bohunt School, Hampshire, UK
A Chinese teacher at Bohunt School, Hampshire, UK BBC中文网

A BBC documentary shows what happens when intense Chinese instructors meet a classroom of UK teenagers accustomed to some degree of autonomy. A culture clash ensues. What China can learn from the experiment.

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Geopolitics Syria Crisis

The Depraved Brand Of Education ISIS Imposes In Deir Ez-zor

Deir ez-Zor's suspension bridge
Deir ez-Zor's suspension bridge Brejnev, Chadi Samaan/GFDL

DEIR EZ-ZOR — As soon as ISIS fighters fully seized Deir ez-Zor, they made a number of draconian changes, one of which was to close schools. After a lengthy period, during which teachers were required to attend training courses in Islamic education, the schools reopened. The city’s schools are no longer housed in public buildings. Residents instead have volunteered their houses as classrooms and supplies, such as desks and boards, have been moved there from the schools. The curriculum has been modified — many subjects were omitted, while others were added — and the number of schools is limited, as […]

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Geopolitics Society

The Moroccan Model: Using Islam To Fight Extremism In Africa

Moroccan imam at the Shrine of Moulay Ismail
Moroccan imam at the Shrine of Moulay Ismail Tampa Bay Times

For the past 50 years, religion has been a key element in Moroccan diplomacy with its African neighbors. Now it’s part of the fight against Islamic terrorism on the continent.

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