During a cold week last January, thousands of parents and grandparents throughout the country marched on state capitols and held town hall meetings, expos, movie screenings and even a grandmas’ coffeehouse – all in the name of more educational freedom. Robert Enlow, President and CEO of the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice They shared one concern: with more than 1Read more

Indian Community Schools are planning a massive infrastructure expansion to meet the growing demand for admissions, Tony George Alexander, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Indian Schools, has said. "We are conscious of the pressing need to expand our existing infrastructure and we are working relentlessly to go for expansion and detailed announcement to that effect would be madeRead more

An army of 20,000 volunteers will be needed for a new initiative to help children play safely outdoors, say campaigners. They will be asked to help build new playgrounds, staff existing ones, run play schemes and street parties. The government has given £2m to help local groups boost outdoor play in their communities. Campaign group Play England says children shouldRead more

Crown Prince Naif, deputy premier and minister of interior, has thanked Education Minister Prince Faisal bin Abdullah for executing the massive task of transferring 28,000 women schoolteachers to locations of their choice. The transfer operations will be completed by the end of the second semester of the academic year. Crown Prince Naif also commended Prince Faisal for implementing the royalRead more

The number of nursery students enrolled in Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) schools has seen a jump of over 4,000 compared to last year, an official said Saturday. "Total number of students in nursery classes has witnessed an increase of over 4,000, increasing the total number to 49,419 this year. The number of boys is 22,259, while there are 27,160Read more

In keeping to what may be regarded as an Asian tradition, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak did not disappoint when he called at Sekolah Menengah Jenis Kebangsaan Chong Hwa Jalan Gombak here Friday. "Ah Jib Gor", or "elder brother Najib" in Chinese, announced an allocation of RM2.5 million for the construction of a new building for the school,Read more

In an effort to improve the handwriting of children, the Rajasthan government has mandated the use of pencils for students upto Class 5 in state-run schools, an official said Wednesday. The initiative has been taken up by the Directorate of Primary Education in Bikaner. "The directorate’s additional commissioner has issued orders that students in primary level at schools should notRead more

A total of 200 million yuan (31.7 million U.S. dollars) in donations fully covered the cost of rebuilding a middle school in southwest China that was destroyed by a powerful earthquake in 2008, according to the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese (AFRO). The actual cost of the reconstruction was 197.93 million yuan, just below the 200 million yuan donatedRead more

Are teachers motivated to teach better by financial rewards in the same way salesmen are motivated by sales targets and production goals? Do merit pay programs that focus on students’ standardized test scores improve student achievement and reward the best teachers? According to a new report by the National Education Policy Center (NEPC), the short answer to these questions isRead more

There was a 4% rise in the number of female professors at UK universities last year, figures show. But they are still heavily outnumbered by men and make up just under 20% of those holding the senior post. Figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (Hesa) show there were just under 3,500 female professors in 2010, out of a totalRead more