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Almost everything is getting better

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Long Now Foudation - By Kirk Citron - Aug. 10 (News Report) - Last week The Millennium Project released its 02011 State Of The Future report, looking at trends for the past twenty years and projecting ahead for the next decade. (Not the 10,000 year future, but still of interest.) You can read an executive summary of the report here. While the report finds many things to worry about – global warming, terrorism, corruption – overall the trends are surprisingly hopeful, as shown in their chart called “Where we are winning”

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Reaching young minds

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

bozemandailychronicle.com - By Gail Schontzler - Jan. 30 (News Report) - Greg Mortenson has spoken to thousands of U.S. university and high school students about his bestselling “Three Cups of Tea,” the inspirational story of his work building schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan to “promote peace, one school at a time.” But when Mortenson visited a fourth-grade class in Houston, he realized the kids were struggling with the adult-level book. That prompted his wife, Tara Bishop, to suggest once again that he write a version for children.

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Rural teachers ford the educational gap

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

VietNamNet Bridge - Jan. 27 (Special Report) - Many young teachers dream of spacious schools with modern equipment, but after graduating university, Hoang Thi Huong ventured to remote Rao Tre Village, where she had to swim across a river every morning just to reach her students. Food or education After graduation Huong found herself inspired by the plight of the province’s Ma Lieng ethnic people, who live in poor conditions in a remote area of the province. These children are often unable to take advantage of educational opportunities, since they are needed at home to help their parents work or take care of their younger siblings. "When I saw the city children going to school, I often wondered why Ma Lieng children didn’t have that opportunity," Huong says, "I began to ponder this question and instead of applying for a job in the centre of the province, I decided to become a teacher in Rao Tre Village." The Huong Lien kindergarten was founded by Headmistress Tran Thi Linh. Hoping to bring education to the most remote areas of the province, she gathered a group of teachers who shared this dream and opened the school in 1995.

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Globally-Engaged Education

Sat, 27 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Change.org - By Nathaniel Whittemore - Dec. 27 (News Analysis) - If you visit northern Uganda during the summer, you're likely to notice the surplus of young Americans running around Gulu town, seemingly all on official humanitarian business. If you listened in on their conversations, some would be talking about earned income strategies; some about microcredit; others about after school programs. And while their good intentions and passions are often much better developed than their skills and strategies for creating change, these young people constitute a potentially powerful force for good. The last few years have seen an explosion of education entrepreneurship, which is reshaping the American education system at every level and increasing student interest in social entrepreneurship. If this was a list of the forces that would shape social entrepreneurship most profoundly in the long-run rather than just in 2009, "globally-engaged education" would be right on top. There are a few factors driving the shift happening in education.

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