Around the World in 30 Days – August 2018
C. M. Rubin’s Global Education Report How can poor children in developing countries acquire reading, writing, and counting skills when there are inadequate qualified teachers and resources? A tablet is helping in Malawi. Onebillion has been bringing numeracy and literacy education to marginalized children in India, Uganda, Malawi and other countries, for 14 years. Their innovative learning app, Onecourse, with its numeracy material...
The Global Search for Education: Finding the Common Ground
What is tolerance? Voltaire describes it as “the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other’s folly – that is the first law of nature.” As the world becomes increasingly global, solutions to fighting bias because of an individual’s race, religion, sexual orientation or other characteristics still remain a local challenge. Each one of us has a part to play in our...
The Global Search for Education: Children Are Stars of Peace
“I believe that words, communication, literature and the arts, can promote peace, tolerance and harmony, and bring about a change.” — Ada Aharoni The biggest challenge for humanity in the years ahead just might be coming to grips with the idea that we are all in this together – we are living in a world that’s more interconnected than ever and more competitive than ever. Our most important work, if we are to progress as a healthy,...
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