“[T]he Obama administration, in education laid the groundwork for Trump and Betsy DeVos because they were big supporters of charter schools . . . [C]harter schools are the first step toward full privatization.” – Diane Ravitch, Democracy Now, December 1, 2016 If there is one thing Democrats and Republicans agreed ... Read More »
The French far-right leader Marine Le Pen proposed Thursday that children of illegal immigrants be refused places in public school as part of tough program to restrict state services. “I’ve got nothing against foreigners, but I say to them: ‘If you come to our country, don’t expect that you will ... Read More »
The French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has proposed that children of immigrants who are in the country illegally should be refused school places as part of tough measures to restrict state services. “I’ve got nothing against foreigners but I say to them: if you come to our country, don’t ... Read More »
The United States is in the midst of an education crisis; this is not news. The underperformance of American students, particularly in science and math, is well-known, as is the education bureaucracy’s dereliction of duty in the country’s poor and urban communities. Almost all Americans seem to acknowledge the failures ... Read More »
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Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of education, Betsy DeVos, spoke at a 2001 conference with her husband, Dick, about using educational philanthropy to promote their conservative Christian worldview to children. The conference was hosted by The Gathering, a group of elite Christian philanthropists. Researcher Bruce Wilson, co-founder of the website Talk To ... Read More »
Betsy DeVos, a national leader in the school choice movement, may be bringing the religious culture wars to public education. Trump has tapped DeVos, who once talked about her work as an effort to “advance God’s Kingdom” and compared that to a biblical battleground, to head the Education Department. POLITICO ... Read More »
Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of education, Betsy DeVos, spoke at a 2001 conference with her husband, Dick, about using educational philanthropy to promote their conservative Christian worldview to children. The conference was hosted by The Gathering, a group of elite Christian philanthropists. Researcher Bruce Wilson, co-founder of the website Talk To ... Read More »
IN May, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Affiliated School (XJTLU-AS) was proclaimed in Suzhou. As the affiliated school of a new international university approved by China’s Ministry of Education, XJTLU-AS is an internationalized boarding school with a 15-year curriculum. It is a new brand in internationalized education, one dedicated to exploring not ... Read More »
The State Platform for Common School System — Tamil Nadu (SPCSS-TN) has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi with an appeal to allow States to pursue their own policy on education. The letter, written to greet the PM on the occasion of Constitution Day observed on November 26, states that ... Read More »
Entrepreneurs have to be super-humans. A statement like this makes you wonder what I mean. Well, while there are multiple people performing different roles in a company, often across departments and geographies, the entrepreneur usually fulfills all the roles by himself. Obviously, many entrepreneurs realise that they are under-equipped to ... Read More »
Mumbai: In order to provide an anonymous platform to students, parents, teachers and others working in the field of education to raise their grievances, an android application by the Mumbai-based Forum for Fairness in Education (FFE) was launched on Wednesday. The graphical interface of the four-megabyte application named Forum for ... Read More »
