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Students, Teachers & Advocates: Education’s Frontline Defenders on Malala Day

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The situation is grave: 12 million children in Pakistan have never attended school (two-thirds of them girls), Pakistani teachers killed for educating young women, and the bombing of girls’ schools. Female students have been targeted for attacks including the well-known shooting of Malala Yousafzai and her peers. That’s why hundreds of youth from around the globe are taking over the United Nations on July 12 to advocate for their right to safe education. 

The situation is grave: 12 million children in Pakistan have never attended school (two-thirds of them girls), Pakistani teachers killed for educating young women, and the bombing of girls’ schools. Female students have been targeted for attacks including the well-known shooting of Malala Yousafzai and her peers.

When Building More Schools Is Not Enough

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I am a teacher of teachers, living in Tanzania. I came six years ago to work with primary teachers, teaching them how to use a comprehensive literacy instruction approach and to integrate literacy strategies into content instruction.  Tanzania is an interesting country, balancing between a traditional subsistence farming culture, and a 21st century future.  It is rich in resources, and poor in economy.  Typical of most developing countries, it has huge potential and big problems.  Education is at the core of both the potential and barriers here.

The Rights and Wrongs of Early Literacy Efforts in One Developing Country

Guest blog by Amy Awbrey Pallangyo

"Helping Ourselves By Helping Others"

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The Eldany Foundation of Kazakhstan reaches out to Almaty's disabled youth.

While recently visiting sub-grantees of the BOTA Foundation in Almaty, Kazakhstan, I met a group of young adults who are developing their professional talents, despite never having had attended school and rarely having had the opportunities to leave their homes.  It is not that Almaty lacks schools; there are many schools of high quality that are developing a skilled workforce that is supporting their country’s economic growth.  Nor are they excluded from the education system based on their ethnic or linguistic aff

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