失去一代人:联合国儿童基金会看到沙特战争劫持也门儿童的未来
“没有教育[年轻的也门人]将无法找到工作……没有受过教育的一代人将来会非常黯淡。我们正在失去一代人 – 许多孩子正在失去他们的教育,流离失所使他们变得更糟。“ – Mermenxell Relano,也门联合国儿童基金会主任
“没有教育[年轻的也门人]将无法找到工作……没有受过教育的一代人将来会非常黯淡。我们正在失去一代人 – 许多孩子正在失去他们的教育,流离失所使他们变得更糟。“ – Mermenxell Relano,也门联合国儿童基金会主任
“很少找到一个正常的孩子,即使是在幼儿园的孩子。无论是在家还是在学校;像投降,战机,射击,敌人,杀人和卡拉什尼科夫这样的词语经常被听到,因为孩子们在一起玩耍。” – 也门社会工作者阿斯玛Juhaff。
SADAA, YEMEN -- September is the month when students around the world head back to school and, despite enduring years of brutal war, Yemen’s children are no exception. In the Khulah School in the northern city of Sadaa, fifth-grader Saleem Ahmed Mutaher sits on the floor with about 70 other students, his mind distracted by the pain of sitting on a
Ahmed AbdulKareem is a Yemeni journalist based in Sana'a. He covers the war in Yemen for MintPress News as well as local Yemeni media.
“我们本可以在全球范围内建立一个军事航空研究机构,但我们朝着[童年]教育的方向前进,因为这是激发我们的原因。” – 洛克希德马丁公司
JERUSALEM -- American aerospace contractor and maker of the F-35 stealth fighter jet, Lockheed Martin, is opening a “one of a kind” science-focused preschool in Jerusalem, with plans to serve Israeli children as young as five, according to a press
大约有5万人出现在圣胡安的街道上,要求财政紧缩政策在陷入困境的英联邦国家结束。
SAN JUAN – On the U.S. mainland, teachers have been marching, organizing at the grassroots, for more money for schools. On Puerto Rico, it was the students – 94 percent of them. That’s how many of the island’s students stayed out of class on May Day, the commonwealth’s Education Secretary admitted. The students were part of a
Mark Gruenberg is head of the Washington, D.C., bureau of People's World. He is also the editor of Press Associates Inc. (PAI), a union news service in Washington, D.C. that he has headed since 1999. Previously, he worked as Washington correspondent for the Ottaway News Service, as Port Jervis bureau chief for the Middletown, NY Times Herald Record, and as a researcher and writer for Congressional Quarterly. Mark obtained his BA in public policy from the University of Chicago and worked as the University of Chicago correspondent for the Chicago Daily News.
Parents who remove their children from the confines of the conventional classroom are not running away from reality. They are running towards it.
In the wake of recent tragic school shootings, anxious parents are contemplating homeschooling to protect their children. After February’s school shooting in Parkland, Florida, the Miami Herald reported that more parents were considering the homeschooling option. And after
Kerry McDonald has a B.A. in Economics from Bowdoin and an M.Ed. in education policy from Harvard. She lives in Cambridge, Mass. with her husband and four never-been-schooled children. Follow her writing at Whole Family Learning.
美国统治阶级为自己的孩子选择的学校类型与日益强加给其他人的孩子之间的巨大差距提供了令人信服的证据,证明富豪和决策者并不认为教育是帮助提升群众的阶梯,而是作为重现不平等的工具。
作者 Jon Jeter
While some social policy formulators are advocating rigorous teaching methods in the formal skills for disadvantaged children, they are tending to enroll their own youngsters in schools that are more open, more permissive, and that tend to give increasing emphasis to the arts and the humanities. Many observers are beginning to view schooling in
Jon Jeter is a published book author and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist with more than 20 years of journalistic experience. He is a former Washington Post bureau chief and award-winning foreign correspondent on two continents, as well as a former radio and television producer for Chicago Public Media’s “This American Life.”
Oil companies are capitalizing on under-funded schools to push a revisionist, pro-fossil-fuel agenda.
The “Oil to School” pipeline, the fossil-fuel industry’s effort to pour pro-petrol propaganda into K-12 classrooms, is more widespread and pernicious than previously thought, a new investigation shows. Oil can exploit the fact that schools are underfunded, and provide resources and then take the opportunity to write the resources which somehow