Children’s educational prospects are shaped long before they get anywhere near a school ­– in the womb, when brain development creates the physical foundations for future learning.

Message from Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO, on the occasion of the Global Action Week 2010 on ‘Financing Quality Education for All’ (19-25 April 2010)

UNESCO Associated Schools (ASPnet) located in areas vulnerable to natural hazards in Latin America and the Caribbean are taking part in a new disaster preparedness project.

One of the highlights of UNESCO Week at the Shanghai World Expo 2010 is the Shanghai International Forum on Lifelong Learning, ...

The following is the full text of the speech delivered on May 5, 2010 by Ayatollah Khamenei the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution to a large group of teachers from across the country.

"The Iranian nation should achieve such progress that it can turn into an unquestioned authority for Muslim nations ..."

There is a powerful human rights argument and a strong developmental case for achieving gender equality in education.

The crowds in colored dresses entering Tehran’s Imam Khomeini Mosalla to visit the Tehran International Book Fair suggest a warm welcome to reading books by Iranian society.

Global Action Week (GAW) which takes place from 19-25 April, will raise the visibility of education financing issues with policy-makers and the international community and call for increased financial support for EFA.

A ground-breaking Right to Education Act has come into force in India legalising the right to free and compulsory schooling for all children between the ages of six and 14.

Education offers hope and the promise of a better life.

With new textbooks for primary school students becoming thicker under the nations new curriculum guidelines,...

The first World Conference on Early Childhood Care and Education calls on the world’s global leadership – public, ...

An International Conference on “Language, Education and the Millennium Development Goals” will be held 9-11 November,2010 in Bangkok, Thailand ...

Education for Human Resource Development, 21-23 October 2010-Bangkok, Thailand

Institutions risk being hostage to row over Pyongyangs abductions...

Live from the Celebration of Teaching and Learning conference, New York

One of the world’s foremost experts on comparing national school systems told lawmakers on Tuesday...

About 73 percent of all elementary and junior high schools nationwide will undertake national achievement tests in April, many voluntarily,...

Daniel Louvard does not believe in affirmative action. Time and again, the scientists in his Left Bank cancer laboratory have urged him to recruit with gender diversity in mind.

The National Center for Education Statistics has released The Condition of Education 2010, a Congressionally mandated report to the nation on education in America. It covers all aspects of education, with 49 indicators that include findings on enrollment trends, demographics, and outcomes.

Thousands of children are being left in the hands of “inadequate” childminders, nurseries and crèches, according to Ofsted.

Effective boards take full and final accountability for their districts. The Greek philosopher Diogenes was said to have walked about in the daylight with a lamp, seeking an honest man. If alive today, he might instead be seeking accountable school boards.

Daniel Willingham - The discussions regarding whether or not adopting the Common Core standards will improve education is, to me, emblematic of a larger issue. When we adopt education policies at the state or federal level, the belief that they will improve things is not based on anything much more solid than faith or hope.

Tehran, Aug 13, IRNA – Some 28 countries are participating at the Qur’an and Islamic Nations culture in the ongoing 18th International Qur’an Exhibition.

TEHRAN Iranian author Erfan Nazar-Ahari will lecture on “Iranian Children and Persian Language Heritage” in Ottawa on August 14.

TEHRAN The seventh edition of the Bismillah Festival will open Friday in three different locations in Tehran and Isfahan where artwork will be put on sale for the first time.

The case for national standards rests in part on the need to remedy the inconsistent aims and inferior quality of many state standards and tests in order to equalize academic expectations for all students. The argument also addresses the urgent need to increase academic achievement for all students.

Tehran, Aug 10, IRNA — United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Executive Director Thoraya Ahmed Obaid in her message on International Day of Youth, August 12, 2010 called on all decision makers to listen to the needs of 1.8 billion young people in the world and respond to them.

As the nation prepares for common core standards in math and English language arts, a framework to guide new science standards is getting closer.

Teenagers who are addicted to the internet are more likely to self-harm than their peers, a new study has claimed.

Councils are focusing too much on providing support for "at risk" children and neglecting the needs of the majority of young people, a government watchdog said.

Globally, there are approximately 71 million out-of-school adolescents of lower secondary school age excluded from any level of education, according to a new paper released by the UIS. The brief also states that 70% of these adolescents are from South and West Asia (40%) and sub-Saharan Africa (30%).

Projects in Cape Verde, Egypt, Germany and Nepal have been awarded this year’s UNESCO International Literacy Prizes, while projects in Colombia and Malawi have received Honourable Mentions.

This summers exceptionally hot weather means children are at increased risk for dehydration, a pediatric expert warns.

Making sure that students across the country learn the same things about the same subjects has been one of the main thrusts of the Obama administration’s education reforms. But a new report from the Great Lakes Center for Education Research and Practice pokes holes in the theory that national standards will do anything to boost academic achievement.

Pupils are being subjected to all manner of crank treatments in the name of helping them, says Francis Gilbert.

The Inter-Agency meeting for TVET held in UNESCO Headquarters on 21 May 2010 was the fourth of a series of meetings inaugurated in April 2009. The aim of the meeting was to revise efforts of all members of the group in the development of TVET strategies worldwide.

How to demonstrate the returns on education and training investments was the subject of an expert group meeting held at the UNEVOC Centre in Bonn on March 8-9.

The leaders of the nine most highly-populated countries of the South (E-9) have adopted an ambitious action agenda to mobilize stronger commitment to literacy, boost effective delivery of literacy programmes, harness new resources and continue their successful teamwork.

Children’s educational prospects are shaped long before they get anywhere near a school ­– in the womb, when brain development creates the physical foundations for future learning.

Message from Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO, on the occasion of the Global Action Week 2010 on ‘Financing Quality Education for All’ (19-25 April 2010)

UNESCO Associated Schools (ASPnet) located in areas vulnerable to natural hazards in Latin America and the Caribbean are taking part in a new disaster preparedness project.

One of the highlights of UNESCO Week at the Shanghai World Expo 2010 is the Shanghai International Forum on Lifelong Learning, ...

The following is the full text of the speech delivered on May 5, 2010 by Ayatollah Khamenei the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution to a large group of teachers from across the country.

"The Iranian nation should achieve such progress that it can turn into an unquestioned authority for Muslim nations ..."

There is a powerful human rights argument and a strong developmental case for achieving gender equality in education.

The crowds in colored dresses entering Tehran’s Imam Khomeini Mosalla to visit the Tehran International Book Fair suggest a warm welcome to reading books by Iranian society.

Children’s educational prospects are shaped long before they get anywhere near a school ­– in the womb, when brain development creates the physical foundations for future learning.

Message from Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO, on the occasion of the Global Action Week 2010 on ‘Financing Quality Education for All’ (19-25 April 2010)

UNESCO Associated Schools (ASPnet) located in areas vulnerable to natural hazards in Latin America and the Caribbean are taking part in a new disaster preparedness project.

One of the highlights of UNESCO Week at the Shanghai World Expo 2010 is the Shanghai International Forum on Lifelong Learning, ...

The following is the full text of the speech delivered on May 5, 2010 by Ayatollah Khamenei the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution to a large group of teachers from across the country.

"The Iranian nation should achieve such progress that it can turn into an unquestioned authority for Muslim nations ..."

There is a powerful human rights argument and a strong developmental case for achieving gender equality in education.

The crowds in colored dresses entering Tehran’s Imam Khomeini Mosalla to visit the Tehran International Book Fair suggest a warm welcome to reading books by Iranian society.

Children’s educational prospects are shaped long before they get anywhere near a school ­– in the womb, when brain development creates the physical foundations for future learning.

Message from Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO, on the occasion of the Global Action Week 2010 on ‘Financing Quality Education for All’ (19-25 April 2010)

UNESCO Associated Schools (ASPnet) located in areas vulnerable to natural hazards in Latin America and the Caribbean are taking part in a new disaster preparedness project.

One of the highlights of UNESCO Week at the Shanghai World Expo 2010 is the Shanghai International Forum on Lifelong Learning, ...

The following is the full text of the speech delivered on May 5, 2010 by Ayatollah Khamenei the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution to a large group of teachers from across the country.

"The Iranian nation should achieve such progress that it can turn into an unquestioned authority for Muslim nations ..."

There is a powerful human rights argument and a strong developmental case for achieving gender equality in education.

The crowds in colored dresses entering Tehran’s Imam Khomeini Mosalla to visit the Tehran International Book Fair suggest a warm welcome to reading books by Iranian society.