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 »
One of the biggest industries in photography is that of photography education. Photography is a very difficult craft to learn without help, and as a result, almost every aspiring photographer must invest in some sort of education source at some point. Fortunately, this demand has created a massive market of ... Read More »
The fight to get accepted into college – particularly a top-notch college – is fierce, to say the least. In the U.S., after-school shops like Sylvan, Kaplan and The Princeton Review capitalize on families’ desires for their children to succeed, offering prep programs for Advanced Placement tests, SATs and then some. ... Read More »
US President-elect Donald Trump today said he intends to nominate conservative activist and billionaire philanthropist Elisabeth ‘Betsy’ DeVos as his Education Secretary. After Indian-American Nikki Haley, DeVos, 58, is the second woman to be nominated to a Trump Cabinet. Haley has been nominated to the position of US Ambassador to ... Read More »
Dear Friends, Like you, my organization is deeply troubled by widespread reports of racially charged bullying, intimidation and harassment that have been happening in Michigan public schools. Racially – charged chants, immigrant children breaking down in tears at school … This is not what public education stands for in our ... Read More »
The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Mysuru, is organising a roundtable discussion on sports education with the schools from Mysuru at Hotel Quorum at 3 p.m. on November 28. The agenda of the round table will be to — understand the existing programmes run by schools currently; understand constraints in ... Read More »
Later today, Philip Hammond, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, will deliver his first ever first Autumn Statement. It’s not an enviable task, as over the last few months he’ll have been lobbied hard – and pulled in different directions – by his colleagues across Whitehall. “Infrastructure investment” looks set to ... Read More »
