Education for All – Kids with Disabilities
Posted on May 14th, 2012 by Deepa Srikantaiah
In Burkina Faso just 40 percent of children with a physical impairment attend school, only slightly below overall national attendance rates. Yet children reported as deaf, mute, blind, or living with a mental impairment are far less likely to be enrolled in school than those with other physical impairments not requiring adaptation in teaching.
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Picture of the Week: Reaching Out-of-School Children
Posted on May 11th, 2012 by Carolina Valenzuela and Yann Doignon
This picture was taken in the state of Karnataka, India and shows children who are currently not enrolled in school. Today, well over 60 million children are not attending school. Over 40% of these children currently live in conflict-affected or fragile states and are at higher risk of being marginalized. Around 43% of out-of-school children live in sub-Saharan Africa and another 27% in South and West Asia.
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Plastic Straws and Paper Money? That’s How the Indian Based NGO Pratham Teaches Math
Posted on May 9th, 2012 by Deepa Srikantaiah
The road to the village of Telrui, Bankura in West Bengal, India, was extremely bumpy and narrow. The tiny dirt road our car was traveling down, however, was leading us to a gem in early grade learning projects, so it was worth it. I was in India earlier this year, to visit projects led by the NGO Pratham, and had the opportunity to visit four of Pratham’s projects in West Bengal, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, and in Delhi.
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You Were Born in the Wrong Place at the Wrong Time and So You Will Not Get Educated
Posted on May 8, 2012 by Caroline Schmidt
Though almost no one would directly say this to a child, it may still reflects what many children might feel when they see have missed a chance to receive an education. This might be because there was no school where they lived, or their parents thought education wasn’t important because they are illiterate themselves or unable to pay for the school, or the instruction in the classroom was so bad that he or she couldn’t learn to read, write or calculate.
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May 25, 2012 to May 25, 2012