The G20 summit, scheduled for July 7th – 8th in Germany, will include discussion of women’s empowerment. A key element in creating that empowerment is education, state authors Barry Johnston and Taylor Royle in a recent article for News Deeply, a media startup and social enterprise.
Noting that more...
According to estimates from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), countries throughout the world must recruit 68.8 million teachers over the next 14 years in order to provide every child worldwide with primary and secondary education. This is just one of the interesting statistics included in the new UIS eAtlas.
The...
As part of its ongoing efforts to provide members of the Community of Practice with valuable professional development information, the Global Reading Network (GRN) will offer two webinars in July spotlighting early grade reading in fragile states, which is becoming an increasingly important topic globally.
The first...
With more than 260 million children and young people throughout the world not in school, the need to provide support for education globally is more important than ever. In a new article appearing in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, Justin W. van Fleet and Liesbet Steer, co-directors of the...
Global poverty could be cut by more than half if all adults finished secondary school, according to a new paper released by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics and the Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report. This translates to 420 million people being lifted out of poverty. The paper is titled...
Earlier this year, superstar singer Rihanna, the Global Ambassador for the Global Partnership for Education (GPE), traveled to Malawi to visit key educators, the Malawian...
This month’s GRN webinars spotlight the critical issue of Disabilities in Reading. On June 7, more than 60 people listened as Joshua Josa of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) provided an overview of USAID’s work on inclusive education. Then Corinne Vinopol...
The amount of aid allocated to education has fallen for six years in a row, according to a new policy paper published by UNESCO’s Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report. The report, titled Aid to Education is Stagnating and Not Going to Countries Most in Need, states that total aid to education stands at US$...
In March 2017, the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) and the United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative (UNGEI) launched a new tool to support partner countries in addressing gender equality as they prepare or revise their education sector plans. The launch of Guidance for Developing Gender-Responsive...
The two most recent blog posts on the Global Reading Network’s website address digital book production and the importance of nonfiction.
The post on digital book production is drawn from GRN’s May 10th webinar on e-materials. More than 100 attendees tuned in to hear representatives from three...
