The two 50-minute online test sessions assessed "the old spreadsheet, word-processing and presentation applications which I was teaching 15 years ago, plus a bit of e-mail".

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When Mandy began teaching Tina how to manage her finances, she quickly realized that their talks, texts and e-mails could be crafted into a primer on financial literacy for all women everywhere.

FORBES: Connect

Last year the Teaching Company, now with 200 employees, mailed 50 million catalogs and flyers and sent out 25 million e-mails.

FORBES: Entrepreneurs

Other challenges include the absence of a consensus on what ESD means, confusion regarding the differences between environmental education and ESD, the need to adapt legislative and policy frameworks to integrate ESD, scarcity of appropriate ESD teaching tools and research, and the need to strengthen civil society involvement in governance at multiple levels (e.g. school, community, region and country).

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