Quoted: Harvard said that it would significantly increase the aid it offered students in the middle and upper middle classes.

A chance to give!!!

From now through December 31, 2007, OLPC is offering a Give One Get One program in the United States and Canada. This is the first time the revolutionary XO laptop has been made available to the general public. For a donation of $399, one XO laptop will be sent to empower a child in a developing nation and one will be sent to the child in your life in recognition of your contribution. Up to $200 of your donation may be tax-deductible (your $399 donation minus the fair market value of the XO laptop you will be receiving).

closing the gap...I hope they will get the funding soon!

Quoted: The initiative has proved so successful that four of South Africa's neighbouring countries - Zambia, Mozambique, Malawi and Swaziland - have entered into a partnership with MiET to develop similar programmes.

But the future of South Africa's SCCS initiative is shadowed by doubt, as MiET only has funding until 2009 to establish the programme in 1,192 primary schools in the two provinces.

"We are busy capacitating people, but there is only money until 2009. What will happen then?" said Aubrey Kgobokoe, a SCCS training coordinator in North West. "It should be rolled out in all schools, so that teenagers will also benefit. Are we going to have to leave those who have yet to benefit to fend for themselves?"

Quoted: The June 2007 Supreme Court decision sharply limiting the use of race in public school admissions was viewed with dismay by many educators, civil rights activists and others who support diversity in our nation’s public schools. As Ted Shaw, the director o

Quoted: In Delhi the sex-education programme never reached any schools. Rina Ray, education secretary in the local government, said it would introduce its own course in ...

Pete redot

Quoted: At the heart of the debate over both schools is whether Arabic and Hebrew can be taught without teaching religion.

Ultimately, it stems from the American conviction that paying taxes to support religious teachings is a violation of the separation of church and state.

While there have been no rallies demanding that the Ben Gamla school be shut down, the school was ordered to suspend Hebrew classes while officials from the local school board determined whether teachers were advocating the Jewish faith.

The Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish campaign group, and the Jewish Federation of Broward County have expressed concerns about the separation of church and state.

"There are unanswered questions as to how the subject matter of Jewish culture can be taught without also teaching the Jewish religion," federation head Eric Stillman said.

If any war is justifiable sure enough this is not one of them!! I wonder how Bush sleeps at night >>>

Quoted: “My mum told me that my brother is going to tell God that we need peace and he will hear him - I’m sure he will. And when that happens I will be outside again, playing football with my friends, who will come back from abroad.”

One man's trash is another man's treasure!

During their 50-year monopoly of the Cairo garbage business, the zebaleen managed to save a bit of cash—local Muslims declare that although the barons may live in squalor, they are far from poor. Now, these shrewd old men are investing their hard-won savings into tuition and training for the next generation. Today’s zebaleen study law, economics, politics, foreign languages—anything but waste management. Their parents may have turned garbage into gold, but they hope to spin gold into a future without garbage

Quoted: "These children are the future of our area, the future of Egypt,” he says. “When I went to school there were seven of us who graduated and only one girl—now there are hundreds of kids and many of them are girls. Now families are willing to pay 15,000LE (about $2650) for a child to go to a private pharmacy school.”