Iraqi Schoolbook Revision Due to IWPR Reporting
Region: IraqArticle on divisive content of textbooks on Islam got education officials working on something both faith communities could live with. By Noor al-Khazali, Khalid Waleed Pare... more
Views: 931Literacy Program In Wilson, North Carolina Benefits Struggling Readers
Region: United States
Author E.D. Arrington affirms as she embarked on writing, part of the overarching message she wanted to convey was “Nobody makes it in this world alone.” The idea of self-reliance als... more
Views: 1276Women's Literacy Makes Headway in Afghan West
Region: Afghanistan
Courses teach women to read and write, defying prejudice against female education By Jalil Mohammadi Nazira looked up proudly from a notebook bearing a United Nations logo to show a series of words wri... more
Views: 6274Author Explores Creative Ways To Encourage Reluctant Readers
Region: United States
For Immediate Release Contact: Jackie O’Neal jackieoneal@comf5.com ( Wilson, NC) The New Yor... more
Views: 1220Kashmir University organized a symposium on female literacy in Doda
Region: India
Doda/Jammu, March 11 (Scoop News) – Jammu and Kashmir State Resource Centre (J&K SRC) University of Kashmir organized a Symposium on the topic “Female Literacy and Women Empowerment” i... more
Views: 2178The snow started melting, Taliban allow the girls up to 4th grade
Region: Pakistan
Swat, Pakistan: The head of Tehrik-e-Taliban Swat chapter, Maulana Fazlullah, while talking to BBC from some undisclosed destination said that he has lifted the complete ban on the girls’ education. In past,... more
Views: 1348The small farmer is key to food security
Region: Bangladesh
That the prevailing food crisis has worsened the lives of the marginalised sections of the populace was never in doubt. The thirty interviews, one from each agro-ecological zone of the country, not only substantiates that ... more
Views: 1250Intel to Promote Computer Literacy in Uttar Pradesh
Region: IndiaThe chip manufacturing company Intel is to help India's IT department make technology more accessible to school teachers throughout India.Uttar Pradesh has teamed up with Intel, for spreading computer literacy in the count... more
Views: 1787Five Million Malawians are Illiterate
Region: MalawiA Malawi National Commission of the UNESCO study has revealed that five million adult Malawians of 15 years and above are illiterate; meaning they cannot read or write. As Malawi joined the rest of the world to celebrate ... more
Views: 1729Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit: professor denounces misleading statements in NYC’s Discovery Center show
Region: New YorkI had been planning to update my mini-series on the NYC Discovery Center exhibition of the Dead Sea Scrolls with a discussion of some rather sordid aspects of the academic politics behind the exhibit. Just yesterday... more
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