Education

By Frédéric Simon | EurActiv.com | – – The United States of America. Home of the free. Land of the brave. And, until Donald Trump became president, a beacon of science, research and technology. And Emanuel Macron wants a piece of it. Emmanuel Macron, who emerged this week as the favourite in the French presidential […]

Education

Would US have more security if it spent on Global Ed instead of on War industries?

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By Jeffrey D. Sachs | (Project Syndicate) | – – NEW YORK – The United States needs to shift its spending from war to education, from CIA-backed regime change to a new Global Fund for Education (GFE). With hundreds of millions of children around the world not in school, or in schools with under-qualified teachers, […]

Authoritarianism

Purge of teachers and academics bulldozes through Turkish education

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By Moritz Pieper | (The Conversation) | – – As news of the attempted military coup in Turkey unfolded, I was in Pennsylvania. Travelling in the US, I had coincidentally found myself in the home state of Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen, who Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has singled out as the mastermind of the […]

Corruption

Trump University Was Textbook case of Fraud (TYT)

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Cenk Uygur | (The Young Turks Video) | – – “Donald Trump is in a lot of trouble since a judge unsealed the documents of the Trump University case. This has the potential to seriously hurt his campaign. Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, breaks it down. .. “The Trump University scam was a […]

Education

Student Protest, Black Lives Matter, & the Corporate University

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By Aviva Chomsky | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – During the past academic year, an upsurge of student activism, a movement of millennials, has swept campuses across the country and attracted the attention of the media. From coast to coast, from the Ivy League to state universities to small liberal arts colleges, a wave of student […]

Displaced and Refugees

Caravan Schools and educating Syrian Refugee Children

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By Samantha Schmidt | ( Yes | – – In response to overcrowded public schools in countries neighboring Syria, caravan schools provide refugees with free education to keep them from falling behind. ZAATARI, Jordan – In a tiny classroom in a metal trailer, the 11-year-old Syrian refugee writes his name on the chalkboard, practicing the […]

Education

Anti-Muslim Bigotry @ Idaho State to cost Pocatello $400 mn./ yr

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Jay Hidlebrandt, Karole Honas, Misty Inglet | – KIFI Local News 8 | – – “The Idaho U.S. Attorney Wendy Olson held a press conference in Pocatello Thursday to address the recent hate crimes against Middle Eastern students.” KIFI Local News 8: “Idaho U.S. Attorney addresses hate crimes in Pocatello”

Education

And the Best Teacher in the World is . . . a Palestinian

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Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — A Palestinian teacher from the occupied West Bank on Sunday won the Varkey Foundation’s 2016 Global Teacher’s Prize “for her work educating children in Palestine.” Hanan al-Hroub, from Duheisha refugee camp in the southern occupied West Bank district of Bethlehem, was announced the winner of the […]

censorship

End of Research in Egypt? The murder of my friend Giulio Regeni is an attack on academic freedom

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By Neil Pyper | (the Conversation) | The body of Giulio Regeni was discovered in a ditch in Cairo on February 2, showing evidence of torture, and a slow and horrific death. Giulio was studying for a PhD at the University of Cambridge, and was carrying out research on the formation of independent trade unions […]