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The post-independence government thus found itself having to hire vast numbers of teachers, many of them unqualified, to cope with the influx of black students attending school for the first time.
Of the millions of children not attending school around the world, one in four lives in a crisis-affected country.
The proposal would benefit the roughly nine million students attending community college at least half-time, making steady progress, and maintaining passing grades.
This struck me recently while I was attending a meeting on the mouse, which is a model for human beings.
The best education target would be to triple the number of children attending pre-school in sub-Saharan Africa, the world’s most deprived region.
Today, we are paying the price for not attending to Europe's shared values and common mission.
A minute of silence for the victims of unarrested war criminals might be a more appropriate way to pay tribute to the Council’s core values of human rights and justice than attending the party now being planned in Belgrade.
Ten yeas ago, 20% of Brazil's school age children were not attending school; now that number is down to 3%.
Imagine doctors at a perpetually overrun hospital refusing to perform triage on casualties, merely attending patients as they arrived and fast-tracking those whose families made the most fuss.
Then reform-minded intellectuals like Cao Siyuan began to be trailed by Public Security Bureau goons, and members attending a conferences on legal reform organized by Cao were admonished by the Propaganda Department (China's censors) to stop discussing the "three unmentionables," (political reform, constitutional revision, and reversing the verdicts on historical incidents).
It is time for Greens everywhere to start attending to ecological matters again – and, strange as it may sound, to look again to America for inspiration.
Consider one appalling statistic: The number of girls not attending school, despite having fallen by 40% since 2000, still stands at 130 million.
Post-Davos DepressionDAVOS – I’ve been attending the World Economic Forum’s annual conference in Davos, Switzerland – where the so-called global elite convenes to discuss the world’s problems – since 1995.
You may recall the story of Richard Nixon attending the independence celebrations in Ghana.
One manager, who initially feared that he would have to leave the company, changed his tune after attending an intensive English-language school in the Philippines, where he met students from South Korea and China who were committed to mastering the language.
Sanusi was attending a conference in Niger when his suspension was announced.
The daughter of Xi Jinping, the presumptive future leader who has now reemerged from an unexplained absence, is attending Harvard under an assumed name.
Hamas understands that accommodation with the Jewish state – and attending to the tedious business of providing decent governance in Gaza, rather than accumulating a formidable arsenal with help from Iran and Sudan (for which “Palestine” is just a pretext) – would mean the end of the organization as we know it.
I first met Putin in October 1999 in Helsinki, when I was attending a European Union-Russia summit as the EU’s external affairs commissioner.
As a Chilean government minister late last decade, I remember the frustration of attending Mercosur gatherings (Chile is an associate member).
In the name of Europe’s core values, all EU ambassadors to Norway should make a point of attending the Nobel award ceremony – which the imprisoned Liu cannot – despite China’s call for them to stay away.
I had the honor of attending the premiere of The Most Dangerous Man in America , the new documentary about Daniel Ellsberg and his daring release of the Pentagon Papers – against the will of the US government – to The New York Times back in 1971.
In democracies, such public events involving popular religious figures are common, and politicians often enjoy the attention they attract by attending them.
But while more children are attending classes, school quality remains uneven.
Could world leaders attending summits like the G7 live and work for an extended period in a foreign country?
In mid-May, I'll be attending the New Cities Summit in Paris, a three-day forum focused on the future of cities.Cities matter, as they always have, but now more of the world is starting to take notice of their problems and possibilities.
British Prime Minister Theresa May, in particular, may be eager to appease Trump, after the prospect of mass demonstrations kept him from attending the dedication ceremony for the new US embassy in London.
I learned this first-hand while attending this year’s Jackson Hole Symposium in the remote wilderness of Wyoming, where, ironically, there are almost no homes to buy.
This conference has grown to be a major international event for government monetary policymakers, with governors or deputy governors of 34 central banks attending this year.
In the developing world, one girl in seven is married by the age of 15; nearly half become mothers by the age of 18.Girls attending secondary school, by contrast, are much less likely to marry and bear children before reaching adulthood.
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