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An obvious solution is to build more schools in places where girls and boys must be educated separately.
In theory, about half of the education gap in these areas could be closed by building girls’ schools.
These children are now suffering a third winter away from their homes, schools, and friends.
Thanks to a historic agreement with the Lebanese government, places for hundreds of thousands of children can be created within weeks by putting 1,500 of Lebanon’s schools on a double-shift system.
Thousands of children in South Sudan still await their first chance to go to school, and schools have yet to be provided for a million more children in the war-torn Central African Republic.
So my Foundation has a university program – now underway in nine countries – that is designed to take religion out of the sole preserve of divinity schools and start analyzing its role in the world today.
Novartis sought the most effective channel to reach these patients, and ultimately found that teaching children about health and hygiene in schools works best.
An ostensibly meritocratic competitive admission system to the grandes écoles is in fact monopolized by the socially privileged, who accounted for 81% of students admitted to Sciences Po in 1998 (compared to the roughly 60% of students at Oxford and Cambridge who come from fee-paying private schools).
It is past time for reforms that empower teachers and transform schools into twenty-first-century learning hubs.
Schools are the first places where we can and should be promoting inclusive citizenship.
Teaching morality and values in business schools will not tame such behavior, but changing the incentives that reward short-term profits and lead bankers and traders to take excessive risks will.
But when it comes to education, many countries in the West are more interested in building walls and detention camps than schools.
They are forced to drop out early, because there are no openings in public schools and tuition for private school is far too high for most families.
Why not pay them the same amount to share their knowledge and skills in high schools?
What drove them to reject the party completely was a policy debate on restructuring “cram schools” – expensive private institutions that prepare high-school seniors for their university entrance examinations.
The movement’s members thus viewed the debate over cram schools as a direct challenge to their influence.
Schools, museums, and the media must foster media literacy to help young people develop critical-thinking skills.
The subject was not taught in schools, owing to “cultural sensitivities.”
And, as in the case of airlines, these inputs – rules, standards, certifications, infrastructure, schools and training centers, scientific labs, security services, among others – are deeply complementary to the ones that can be procured in markets.
In recent decades, lay managers and workers in the church’s network of schools, hospitals, and social-service providers have largely replaced priests and nuns.
By serving as a bridge between informal savings groups and banks, health centers, schools, and agricultural extension services, we are helping women make better decisions about food use, nutritional practices, and spending.
But bad schools are not the result of skimpy education budgets.
It will do so only when people are allowed to create broad alternatives to schools dominated by teachers' unions.
America’s church-operated schools and private, charter schools work extremely well.
A free, or as its postcommunist advocates prefer to call it, a "not paid for" education, means education in schools and universities owned by the state (but not in private schools).
And, perhaps worst of all, terrorists and extremists have been targeting schools, blowing up their buildings and threatening their teachers, particularly in the northern part of the country.
My government will not allow Pakistan’s schools – so vital to our country’s future – to become targets of terrorism.
Protecting schools from extremists today will help to stem the rise of extremism tomorrow.
In the Balkan wars of the 1990’s, communities that had shared the same landscapes for centuries, and individuals who grew up together and went to the same schools, fought one another ferociously.
Stockholm, ruled by conservatives and liberals, has extended its free-market experiments, such as privatization of subway trains, to education vouchers and free choice of alternative schools.
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