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Instead, parents pushed their children towards the best schools to give them an individual head start – something parents do the world over – only after they got richer.
A safe schools initiative has been established to rebuild the girls’ own school in Chibok and to make the roughly 5,000 schools in northern Nigerian safe from terrorist attacks.
In the short term, Nigeria needs to make its schools safer and more secure from terrorist attacks, and a safe-schools plan is being created by the Nigerian authorities to ensure that girls no longer fear going to school in the country’s six northern states.
None of us can stand by and endlessly witness schools shut down, girls cut off from education, and parents living in fear for their daughters’ lives.
And, while we cannot end terrorism overnight, we can show determination to stand up to it by making schools safe.
Both the ad hoc and the global public-goods schools shy away from this question, and yet without at least some working answer, we will lack the compass needed to navigate our increasing global interdependence.
While older statesmen take pride in how far China has come, younger Party figures and elites – especially those who have returned from American and other Western graduate schools – are frustrated by that China’s strategic position in Asia and status within global and regional institutions remain relatively weak, despite the country’s rising economic power.
The revenue will be used to fund sports programs in schools and expand breakfast clubs.
Schools and universities will have to do more to educate students to be better consumers of information.
With hundreds of millions of children around the world not in school, or in schools with under-qualified teachers, a lack of computers, large class sizes, and no electricity, many parts of the world are headed for massive instability, joblessness, and poverty.
If people are able to migrate, they will move to jurisdictions with the mix of taxes and services (e.g., quality schools) that they prefer.
Hospitals are more important for some areas, while schools are more important for others.
States from California to Texas now routinely collect previously local property taxes to fund schools, and then redistribute them to local school districts.
Many believe that the reduction of local control over the schools as a result of the elimination of local financing has been a major contributor to the poor performance of some American schools.
Despite disputes over R2P’s legal basis, the doctrine gained rapid recognition – not least because the various schools of interventionism united behind it.
In addition to such concrete costs, being gay can bring violence, job loss, family rejection, harassment in schools, and pressure to marry.
They sought to limit the authority of tribal chiefs and to use their powers over schools, land, and jobs to weaken, if not altogether eradicate, tribal consciousness.
The returnee has built schools and health clinics.
He also insists that the local schools teach the FraFra language.
Stable families, good jobs, strong schools, abundant and safe public spaces, and pride in local cultures and history – these are the essential elements of prosperous societies.
The challenges – from providing access to decent housing and health care to ensuring that transport networks and schools can cope with growing demand – are numerous and daunting.
Democrats oppose vouchers and prefer major federal investments in order to improve the quality of public schools.
Other solutions may include conditional cash transfers, scholarships for girls, the construction of schools in remote areas, blended learning programs, new facilities for disabled learners, and incentives for teachers to work in difficult conditions.
Teachers and schools need to be given the means to fulfill their mission of giving students the skills and knowledge they need to gain decent employment and contribute to society.
With over a million copies in print, the manual is known as the bible of American psychiatry; certainly it is an invoked chapter and verse in schools, prisons, courts, and by mental-health professionals around the world.
There is no clear evidence, for example, that shows how we can actually improve the quality of education in schools.
Local communities initiated immediate decontamination of sensitive areas outside evacuated zones (for example, kindergartens and schools), in parallel with efforts by the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) to develop the technology for remediation within these zones.
In the past five years, there have been more than 10,000 attacks on schools and schoolchildren.
In Afghanistan, Colombia, Pakistan, Somalia, Sudan, and Syria, at least 1,000 schools and colleges have been bombed or raided.
In the aftermath of the attacks, the schools are usually closed, with the students left to roam the streets.
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