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Latin America and the Caribbean
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Jamaica Observer
4,000 students to benefit from literacy and numeracy interventions
Some 4,000 students from 17 primary schools across the island will benefit from initiatives to boost literacy and numeracy under the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) Youth Education and Recreation Cycle 3 Project.
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The Conversation
Ghana needs more efficient spending to fix gaps in education
Setting global goals and targets alone might not be enough. It is important to understand how much it will cost to realise the education goal. Implementation lies mainly with member states – but do member states have a full picture of what they have signed up for? How much will be needed to achieve the goals? Can it be afforded? What will be the sources of finance?
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The Jordan Times
Kindi, the Uber of English Reading, Links Syrian Refugee Students to Language Pals
When Syrian refugees arrive in Lebanon, their Arabic language does them little good in school, where the curriculum is heavy in English. Mike Clarke, a New Jersey native who grew up 15 minutes from New York City, traveled to Lebanon three years ago to explore how technology applied to humanitarian situations and encountered this language issue.
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Hindustan Times
The national education policy promises reforms, but constraints remain
The draft New Education Policy 2019 (NEP) has already received a record amount of feedback, both in print and directly to the human resource development ministry (HRD). The process has been through many rounds, and one has to commend the ministry for the deep and varied range of consultations it has done — from a district-level teacher programme, to a YouGov portal that gave access to the public, and then to the draft consultations.
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Vox.com
“The $300 textbook is dead,” says the CEO of textbook maker Pearson
“There’s a famous phrase: The first step in solving a problem is recognizing you’ve got one,” says Pearson CEO John Fallon. And for education company Pearson, the problem is also one of its key products: the textbook.
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