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Ugandan School Children

While regional expertise will always be key to implementing successful, sensitive programming, I believe good development starts with good listening — which is something dynamic...

Basic Education Expert Katherine Begley sits in on a Ugandan class session.

Two-dozen children welcome me into the school's library - a rare space in most Ugandan primary schools. But this is no ordinary school, and their headmistress, Olivia Muhumza, no ordinary...

Language transcends borders. That’s why I began studying Arabic six years ago. But when I met with female activists in a café in Fez yesterday, we used three (plus) languages to...

Former Muskie Fellow Liana Samanyan (right) relies on her past experience to sup

Muskie alumna Liana Sanamyan is working to improve the lives of chronically ill children in Armenia through education. As a 2006 Muskie fellow at Bemidji...

Posted on June 1, 2011 - in Basic Education Development, Education, Youth
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Mansour and his English teacher, Abdoul Aziz Niang, in their classroom

Mouhamadou Mansour Diallo, a 14-year-old youth from Senegal, is using a computer in his classroom for the first time this year. His English teacher, Abdoul Aziz Niang, traveled to the US last...

The smile, stickers and Halloween candy I’d brought as a USRVI volunteer weren’t enough. Sasha needed much more than I could give in just one hour, and I had no idea where to start....

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IREX is pleased to announce the recipients of the Spring 2011 TEA/ILEP Alumni Small Grants competition. IREX, in conjunction with an independent selection committee and the Bureau of Educational...

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U.S. Teachers Internationalize Their Classrooms

Across the country, American teachers are recognizing the importance of infusing their teaching with international content and themes. Through the...

It’s Thursday afternoon in Berdyansk, Ukraine and the English club is discussing “Bread and Roses,” a poem honoring female strikers of the early 20th century. One young woman...

Some of the American, oil-company-based engineers with whom I play basketball in Atyrau, Kazakhstan understand what “Peace Corps” service means—thanks in part to its...