Israel’s Bennett: Judaism More Important Than STEM Education
(Photo: Flickr, Creative Commons) During a conference of the TALI Education Fund, Israel’s Education Minister Naftali Bennett stressed the importance of Jewish education over secular subjects such as math More...
Thousands Denied Access to Special Education in Texas
(Photo: Pexels, Creative Commons) Since 2004, children with special needs attending public schools in Texas have been denied access to specialized education services under an arbitrary benchmark set by the states More...
Global Education Goals Won’t Be Met Until 2085, UNESCO Says
(Photo: Wikimedia, Creative Commons) The goal was to get universal secondary education by 2030, but a report by UNESCO, the UN’s education, sciences, and cultural agency, shows that universal upper secondary More...
Salesforce Invests in STEM Education for SF, Oakland Schools
(Photo: Flickr, Creative Commons) Salesforce.org, the philanthropic foundation of cloud computing/customer relationship management company Salesforce.com, has announced it will donate $ 8.5 million to public More...
Grant, Drury University Support Migrant Higher Education
(Photo: Flickr, Creative Commons) Drury University in Monett, Missouri has a program it calls Somos (“we are” in Spanish) that helps migrant workers’ children pay for their higher education. More...
North Korea Executes Top Education Official
(Photo: Reuters) According to a South Korean government official, North Korea has executed top education official Kim Yong Jin by firing squad. The State Security Department branded him “anti-party and a More...
Nation Split on Purpose of Education, Poll Reveals
(Photo: Pixabay, Creative Commons) A recent national poll has found close to half of adults in the United States believe that public education should be focused on academics, while others suggest the main goal More...
Education Levels Influence Migration, Report Says
(Photo: Flickr, Creative Commons) A new report has examined migration within the United States and the roles played by education, skills, and spacial inequality. The report by Chandra Muller of the University More...
Top School Districts with Education Segregation List Surprises
The most economically different school districts in the US which are adjacent to one another are the Detroit academic system and Grosse Pointe, Mich., says a study from EdBuild, an educational funding reform nonprofit. The More...
Hasidic Sect Issues Decree Against Higher Education for Women
(Photo: Wikimedia, Creative Commons) According to a decree issued by Satmar rabbis in New York, where the sect is based, university education for women is “dangerous” and is now banned by the ultra-Orthodox More...