Their voices can be heard far and wide some may even make it onto the NY Index but it is unusual for their views to gain traction amid the entrenched power structure of New York's educational world.
He dreamed of starting a world class educational and healing center for the depressed of Ireland.
Rural women and girls face some of the highest rates of educational poverty in the world.
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The question is, how do we offer students deep, transformative learning experiences in educational institutions around the world?
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Able to attend virtual educational programs online with world class experts in my disease, with people from around the world.
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Educational institutions around the world are not keeping up with teaching styles and general skill needs of the 21st century workforce.
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Germany has one of the most advanced educational systems in the world.
Americans once led the world in educational attainment, but this is now barely rising while other countries have caught up (see article).
No parent I know would conclude that the 25 cents a week we offered the developing world in educational aid per child is generous.
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Facilitate the re-use, revision, remixing and redistribution of educational materials across the world through open licensing, which refers to a range of frameworks that allow different kinds of uses, while respecting the rights of any copyright holder.
Ultimately, Open Discovery Space will engage stakeholders in the production of new user-generated educational activities in a socially-empowered, multilingual environment and empower them with integrated access to unique eLearning resources from educational repositories around the world.
Like many of his counterparts in rich and not-so-rich countries, Mr Homma looks forward to a world where educational shoppers take a hard look at what is on offer in the global supermarket before settling for a home-made product.
Part I shows the alarming educational situation in the world to-day, and the great efforts needed to meet basic learning needs as exemplified in the World Declaration on Education for All, the expanded vision of basic education, which came from the World Conference held in Jomtien, Thailand, in 1990.
While the views of panellists varied widely on the best ways to improve and enhance education, they all agreed that broadband could address educational challenges in a world where 61 million children of primary-school age are not in school, 1.7 million extra teachers are needed and 775 million people, mostly women, are illiterate.
In another growing sign of interest in educational developments around the world, the Council on Basic Education has taken the lead on a major international effort using student work to illustrate teaching practices in nine nations, assist countries in benchmarking their own teaching against that of other countries, and share effective teaching techniques across national borders.
The United States is the world's largest economy, with an educational and technological infrastructure that is unmatched in the world, and stable energy regulation and investment policies.
An educational system that emphasizes this framework prepares students for the world beyond the classroom while embracing an educational method that taps into a more natural method of learning.
The Islamic Fiqh Academy of Jedda is one of the most influential educational institutions in the Muslim world for shariah scholars.
"Our name has huge brand equity in educational institutions everywhere in the world, " says Prem Vrat, a former director of the IIT Delhi campus.
This is the commitment of UNESCO State Members, including Brazil, in two of the six Education for All Goals (goal 2 and 6), during the World Forum of Educational for All (Dakar, 2000).
In addition to the new hardware technology, OLPC has been very active in strengthening strategic partnerships with world-class educational content developers, including Sesame Street Workshop, UNESCO and Little Pim, to provide content for the XO laptops and tablets.
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While including much of the drama, entertainment, factual and educational programming that sells around the world, the SBC could perhaps co-operate on news and current affairs, if an agreement could be reached.
All of the nominees had previously won the annual World's Children's Prize which is organized by The World's Children's Prize for the Rights of the Child (WCPRC) -- the world's largest educational program promoting young people's rights.
When the state does its job well, that is fine: in Japan, students pay companies such as Benesse, one of the world's biggest educational firms, to get them through the entrance exams of the most prestigious state-run schools.
This paradigm, which combines meaningful work that can be graded at scale with peer-teaching among students, allows us to offer some of our best educational content to students around the world, at a negligible marginal cost of pennies per student.
The responsibilities of power, and the realities of a dangerous world, tend to be educational.
With few jobs and educational options, many in the developing world start businesses because they have no other choice.
Miami's New World Symphony offers a unique educational environment for talented young musicians.
The most comprehensive world-wide comparison of educational standards the Third International Mathematics and Science Study found that, out of 21 countries, America ranked 16th in general science, 19th in maths and last in physics.
Bosnia and Herzegovina was granted funding for the translation of UNESCO and the World Anti-Doping Agency educational materials into the various languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina and their dissemination to young athletes, athlete support personnel and representatives of sports federations.
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