Newsletter Education for All - Fast Track Initiative - May 2009
The latest issue of the newsletter of the Education for All - Fast Track Initiative (EFA - FTI) is posted here. Our intention is to keep our partners and friends informed about FTI programs and activities on a bi-monthly basis. If you would like to submit a text item for the upcoming newsletter, please send an email before July 11, 2009 to the EFA - FTI Secretariat, email: information@educationfasttrack.org.
Picture of the week “This photo is of refugee children reading and writing in Gaza. Gaza suffers from severe fuel and electricity shortages resulting in 12-hour-blackouts each day. The children, undeterred, read by candlelight.” This picture and essay were submitted to the 2012 Reading Changed My Life Contest by Shareef Sarhan from the United States. [...]
Achieving global consensus on learning metrics This is a joint blog post by Dzingai Mutumbuka and Maribel Soliván The inspiring documentary film, Girl Rising, tells the personal experiences of nine young women in different countries who have overcome extraordinary challenges in their struggle to go to school. While each of these girls is an exceptional individual, their [...]
Indian law requires private schools to reserve 25% of enrollment for marginalized students This blog post was originally published in Oxfam’s From Poverty to Power Blog This summer, India missed the historic deadline to implement the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009. This landmark law, the fruit of more than a decade of [...]
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