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Original Source In his first annual letter, Bill Gates talks about his work at the foundation and speaks candidly about what has gone well, what hasn’t, and what we are learning along with our partners. 2009 Annual Letter from Bill Gates: U.S. Education   I…

by SEAN FLYNN, GORDON DEEGAN and KITTY HOLLAND Over 1,000 teaching posts will be lost and the entire education sector will be "asset-stripped" because of the budget cuts, the Teachers Union of Ireland (TUI) said yesterday. In a separate development, the Bishop of Killaloe, Dr…

Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba (MEDICC) is an Atlantic grantee through the Population Health programme. Position DescriptionSearch for the Executive Director Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba (MEDICC) Oakland, CAMedical Education Cooperation with Cuba (“MEDICC”), a highly regarded non-profit organization working to enhance cooperation among the US, Cuban and global…

OPINION  Doron Isaacs of Equal Education describes the organisation's campaign that got the Minister of Basic Education to settle their court case last week.On Monday 12 November I was sitting in a meeting at Equal Education head office in Khayelitsha and noticed the red light…

International Human Rights Day on 10 December marks the 63rd year of global recognition of our basic human equality and the continuous struggle to gain basic human rights for all individuals. Reconciliation & Human Rights made up the largest portion of Atlantic's 2010 grantmaking programmes — funding…

By Mogomotsi MagomeCommunity organisation Equal Education (EE) has called on Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga to urgently improve the condition of schools across the country. The organisation, including pupils and teachers, picketed at the Union Buildings on Thursday to “remind” Motshekga that she had signed…

Housed at the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections (RMC) at Cornell University Library, our Archives are comprised of the paper and digital records kept at our offices in New York City, Ithaca, Bermuda, Dublin, Belfast, London, and Johannesburg. In the Archives, researchers can find…

By Evie Blad (cross-posted from Charters & Choice)The U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights issued guidance today clarifying that charter schools have the same obligations to abide by federal civil rights laws as regular public schools. The "Dear Colleague" letter by Assistant Secretary…

Original Source The U.S. Department of Education has announced draft requirements for $3.5 billion in Title I School Improvement grants targeting the nation's lowest-performing schools. The Obama administration's strategy for turning around low-performing schools includes identifying the lowest-achieving Title I schools in each state; supporting…

By Meabh RitchieReligious feeling runs high on the two sides of Derry, but Northern Ireland’s Sharing Education Programme sees Catholic and Protestant pupils working together, reports Meabh Ritchie It may be early summer, but sheets of rain are slicing the landscape in two and colliding…