There is also a learning crisis: Worldwide, 250 million children of primary school age cannot read or write, whether they are in school or not.
There is also a learning crisis: around the world, 250 million children of primary school age cannot read or write, whether they are in school or not.
There is also a learning crisis: around the world, at least 250 million children of primary school age cannot read or write, whether they are in school or not.
The forthcoming UNESCO Education For All Global Monitoring Report estimates that some 61 million primary school - age children still have no access to school, while 250 million children who should have reached fourth grade cannot read or write whether they are in school or not.
Successive education ministers have found themselves having to act as judge and jury in determining whether local school reorganisations should go ahead or not.
Much of what the government can do would not cost much: for example, passing laws to promote stability in teachers' careers and improve training standards, and encouraging and disseminating good practice, whether in teaching methods or school management.
She bought organic food, encouraged her children to play instruments, and fretted over whether they were adequately challenged in school.
By helping popularize weight training, supplement and vitamin use, and fitness equipment -- whether in a gym, a school or a home -- Weider helped change the way the world looks at fitness and health, according to Parker.
One, of course, is in Dover, Pennsylvania, and what that case will really revolve around, I believe, is whether the school board had a religious motivation in putting this statement in the biology class.
This rule applies in almost all cases, regardless of whether your child is living at home, enrolled in school, or a married college graduate.
The reality is far different for the majority of schools, and the deal breaker is whether or not a school excels in college football.
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The Nassau County district attorney's office Friday said it opened an investigation into whether 18 elementary-school teachers in the city on Long Island's North Shore had coached students during last year's state tests.
To refine its ratings and reflect the importance of new emerging technologies, the Review made several changes to last year's survey, adding questions ranging from whether a school offers network access in dorm lounges to if it has a computer ethics policy in place.
The school board will decide later this month whether to approve the recommendation allowing the school to open in 2010.
And we wonder whether our children will be unhappy, whether they will face bullying or misery in school.
State high school associations nationwide are debating whether to split public and private schools in the playoffs, particularly in football, because of private-school dominance that the public schools say is unfair because they, unlike their private colleagues, can recruit, er, attract players from outside a geographical boundary.
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When customers--whether they be patients, parents of kids in school or those who use the post office-are not in charge of a service, severe problems result.
Such gifts, whether to a university in general or a business school, are a common part of alumni life in the United States, but far less so in Europe, where universities have traditionally been state funded.
Psychologists are studying whether the treatment can be adapted to group settings in school, even if parents aren't using the same practices at home.
But it's also an opportunity to deepen those ties -- and a reminder to be the change that each of us seeks -- whether that's in your home or in your school or in your community or in your country, you are all the change that we need.
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It's hard to know whether Taylor would have made such dramatic progress in a larger school.
Monmouthshire council said the school was looking into whether the teacher behaved in an "unacceptable way".
The basic transition, racial transition that we see in our cities took place whether or not there was school desegregation.
It affects how they feel about themselves and whether they have the energy and the stamina to succeed in school and in life.
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This year, eighth-graders won't find out whether they won a coveted spot in a top public high school until two days after the March 13 deadline for private-school tuition deposits, which can cost thousands of dollars.
In the absence of any formal evidence on whether business school education helps or hinders becoming a successful entrepreneur, I am inclined to rely on their judgement: business school education helps, if you want to become a successful entrepreneur.
She gave her son, then thirteen, the choice whether to come with her or stay behind at his school in Hawaii, and he chose to stay.
The government has appointed former Labour minister Alan Milburn to monitor its progress on a series of indicators, including whether top universities are allowing enough state-school educated children in.
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