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January 9th, 2012: Education for All: Three New Year’s wishes

January 5, 2012 Source: World Education…
December 8th, 2011: In Zimbabwe, school grants provide equal learning opportunities to girls

December 7, 2011 UNICEF The Global Partnership for Education has helped more than 19 million children go to school for the first time. A campaign to renew support for…
November 29th, 2011: Global Fund for Education Gathers Momentum

November 28, 2011 IPS UNITED NATIONS, Nov 28, 2011 (IPS) - If the international community can successfully raise billions of dollars to fight deadly diseases, why not a similar fund…
November 29th, 2011: At a Crossroads in Copenhagen: The Future of Financing for Global Education

November 3, 2011 The Brookings Institute Not all international gatherings get the attention they deserve. Next week, governments from around…
November 9th, 2011: Bill Gates Gets Poor Marks for Ignoring Education

November 9, 2011 The Guardian You’ve got to hand it to Bill Gates. The eurozone might be going up in smoke, financial…
November 9th, 2011: Declines in International Aid Could Hurt Children

November 8, 2011 Rights of the Child News Funding for education has declined in…
November 8th, 2011: MDGs May Cut Infant Mortality Rate, says Gordon Brown

November 8, 2011 This Day Live Former United Kingdom Prime Minister, Mr. Gordon Brown, has expressed regret that it might be impossible…
November 8th, 2011: Aid Cuts Could Spell Disaster for the Education of Poor Children

November 8, 2011 OxfamDonor cuts and empty promises leave poor countries in the lurch As donor aid levels plummet children in developing…
November 1st, 2011: As World Welcomes ‘7 Billionth Baby’ UN Says Empowering Women is Key to Stability

October 31, 2011 Christian Science Monitor The ‘7 billionth baby’ was officially…
October 25th, 2011: Africa Must Invest in Education to Overcome Poverty

October 21, 2011 PolicyMic A quick glance at the list of African countries with the lowest literacy rates on the recent UNESCO Global…
October 25th, 2011: Why Cutting Foreign Aid is a Bad Idea

October 21, 2011 The Washington Post
October 12th, 2011: Global Access to Education is Critical

October 11, 2011 The Tennessean Sixty-seven million children worldwide did not attend school this year. Most of them were girls, who…
October 5th, 2011: Focus on Education

October 5, 2011 Desert News Given how Congress so far has avoided making the necessary tough decisions to reduce the federal deficit, it should come as no surprise…
October 5th, 2011: UN Forum Tackles Enduring Disparities in Education Faced by Girls

October 3, 2011 UN News Centre With evidence showing that disparities in education widen as girls grow, the United Nations today kicked off a two-day meeting…
September 30th, 2011: What’s in a name? Rebranding the EFA Fast Track Initiative
September 22nd, 2011: Foreign Aid Used For Education Helps Fight Terrorism

September 21, 2011 The Standard-Examiner (UNEDITED)Americans across the political spectrum acknowledge that the deficit is an urgent problem.…
September 22nd, 2011: Deaths of Infants and Young Mothers Are Declinging, But Goals Are Missed

September 19, 2011 Source: The New York Times Deaths of infants and young mothers continue to decline around the world, but nearly not as quickly as the world’s health…
September 21st, 2011: New Name, New Start: The Global Partnership for Education

September 21, 2011 Source: ONE Blog Launched in 2002 by the World Bank and other donors, the Education for All - Fast Track Initiative (FTI)…
September 20th, 2011: Gordon Brown: Keeping Our Promises

September 19, 2011 Source: Huffington Post When governments gather for the annual IMF-World Bank meeting in Washington next week their agenda will be dominated…
September 20th, 2011: Letter to the Editor: Education for All Good for World

September 14, 2011 Source: NJ.com As children from New Jersey are getting back to school, around the world there are 67 million…
September 14th, 2011: Letter to the Editor: An Inspiration for Global Education

September 12, 2011 Source: Kitsap Sun
September 14th, 2011: Raj Shah and Rep. Lowey joined by astronauts, Muppets for International Literacy Day

September 13, 2011 Source: ONE Blog You may have read somewhere that last week was International…
September 12th, 2011: Editorial: Educate girls to get bang for our foreign-aid bucks

September 10, 2011 Source: The Houston Chronicle Around the world, 67 million kids don’t go…
August 22nd, 2011: Opinion: Education for All

August 21, 2011 Source: The Miami Herald Children in Florida are back in school, but 67 million children around the world will not…
August 15th, 2011: How American aid is lifting Liberia

Source: The Washington Post August 12, 2011 By Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Americans are an extraordinarily…
August 11th, 2011: CARE: “Going to school should not be a luxury”

August 11, 2011 Source: AlertNet As the influx of Somali refugees across the border to Kenya is increasing every day, CARE International…
August 2nd, 2011: A Community Response to Girls’ Education in Kibera

August 1, 2011 Source: Huffington Post Buried deep inside the sprawling maze of Kibera, sub-Saharan Africa’s largest…
August 2nd, 2011: A New Girls and Women’s Literacy Empowerment Movement

August 1, 2011 Source: Huffington Post My LitWorld team has just returned from a trip to work with the girls and women leading…
August 2nd, 2011: What Is Girls’ Education Without Human Rights?

August 1, 2011 Source: Amnesty International Education, especially girls’ education, is a no-brainer, right? Evidence shows…
August 2nd, 2011: US must learn from Britain and not cut foreign aid

August 1, 2011 Source: The Guardian Current budget battles in Washington could result in an erosion of our country’s…
July 29th, 2011: Literacy and the Population Problem

July 29, 2011 Source: The New York Times The world’s population is expected to pass seven billion in late October. A few…
July 27th, 2011: South Sudan: the learning begins

July 27, 2011 Source: The Guardian Being educated during the country’s civil war was almost impossible.…
July 18th, 2011: Millions of girls in poor countries have only a 50/50 chance of finishing primary education

July 17, 2011 Source: Media for Freedom Millions of girls are being forced out of school because of poverty, the threat of sexual violence and poor-quality…
July 14th, 2011: Millions of girls in poor countries have only a 50/50 chance of finishing primary education

New report highlights countries failing to get female children into school Millions of girls are being forced out of school because of poverty, the threat of sexual violence and poor-quality schools – despite improved enrolment rates,…
July 6th, 2011: UN Economic and Social Council shines spotlight on expanding access to education

July 5, 2011 Source: UN News Centre An estimated 67 million school-age children worldwide are unable to attend classes because of…
July 6th, 2011: The Second Economic Crisis is Here

July 6, 2011 Source: This Day Live Gordon BrownThe world is in danger of sleepwalking through one of the greatest injustices of our…
June 24th, 2011: Shakira in Israel to Promote Education Campaign

June 21, 2011 Source: ABC News By ARON HELLER Associated PressJERUSALEM June 21, 2011 (AP)Colombian pop singer Shakira promoted…
June 21st, 2011: The soldier who fought for the right to go to school in Kenya

June 21, 2011 The Guardian The venue for the film’s premiere was a tent erected over the hard-packed earth of the school playground.…
June 6th, 2011: Editorial: Girls’ and Womens’ Education

Girls’ and Womens’ Education U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton recently spoke in Paris in support of the Global Partnership for Girls’ and Women’s Education June 4, 2011 Source:
May 25th, 2011: Poor schooling undercuts economic growth: Brown

Source: AFP JOHANNESBURG — The failure of poor nations to prioritise education…
May 25th, 2011: GORDON BROWN: Leaders must take lead from people on education

May 25, 2011 Source: BusinessDay VISIT any slum or poor rural village in Africa and it is hard to avoid being struck by the drive for education.…
March 28th, 2011: Take Action Through 10x10 Partner Global Campaign for Education
January 27th, 2011: Investing in Education at Home and Abroad Will Reap Big Returns for the U.S.

January 27, 2011 Source: Brookings by Rebecca Winthrop and Justin van Fleet In President Obama’s State of the Union Address,…
January 13th, 2011: A Conservative Case for the International Affairs Budget

January 13, 2010 Source: U.S. Global Leadership Coalition by Melissa Silverman Well-known conservative commentator…
November 10th, 2010: Millions of children to lose schools ‘unless western donors help’

November 9, 2010 Source: The Guardian By David Smith Lack of support from the west could force many…
October 28th, 2010: A mother’s education has a huge effect on a child’s health

September 16, 2010 Source: The Washington Post By David Brown It turns out that pencils and books for mothers may…
October 22nd, 2010: Obama must fulfill promise to aid education worldwide

October 18, 2010 Source: Northwest Indiana Times As your Oct. 6 article on the food crisis in 22 developing countries…
October 19th, 2010: Back to School

October 19, 2010 Source: The International Herald Tribune By Arne Duncan During his trip to Asia last November, President Barack Obama sat down to a working lunch with South Korea’s president, Lee Myung-bak, in Seoul. In…
October 15th, 2010: What Oman Can Teach Us

October 14, 2010 Source: The New York Times By Nicholas D. Kristof MUSCAT, OmanAs the United States relies on firepower to…
October 7th, 2010: Achieving Basic Education for All

September 30, 2010 Source: The Jordan Times By Tayseer Al Noaimi Only five years separate us from the finish line in the race towards achieving Goal…
October 7th, 2010: Lobbying for legislation to commit US to Global Education Fund

October 6, 2010 Source: Education International Despite world leaders committing to achieve universal primary education…
September 20th, 2010: Jeremy Hobbs: If Every Child Could go to School

September 13, 2010What would the world look like if every child could go to school?Imagine a world where new HIV infections are a rarity. Where children have clean water and adequate food. New mothers survive childbirth and…
September 20th, 2010: Education Aid Comes up Short

September 17, 2010 Source: The Montreal Gazette by Janet Bagnall On a sunny Monday morning two weeks ago, children in…
September 15th, 2010: We need Global Fund for Education

September 15, 2010Source: Deseret NewsBy Vanessa JohnsonThis past spring, I had the rare opportunity…
September 14th, 2010: One village, One Child at a Time

September 10, 2010 source: Concord Monitor By Deb Baker/For the Monitor Here in New Hampshire, it’s back-to-school time.…
September 14th, 2010: Letter to the Editor: Education for All

August 22, 2010 Source: Miami Herald Re the Aug. 17 story New education system may rise from Haiti’s ruins: …
September 14th, 2010: Universal Access to Learning Improves all Countries

August 17, 2010 Source: The Fort-Worth Star Telegram By Merrit MartinSpecial to the Star-Telegram
August 5th, 2010: Education: The Best Way to Wage War on Terror

August 5, 2010 Source: The Alexandria Times By Jennifer Gillyard To the editor: Globally there are more…
July 30th, 2010: Achieving the Millennium Development Goals: Education is the Key Missing Link

July 30, 2010 Source: Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution By David Gartner President Obama is releasing…
July 28th, 2010: NYT Op-Ed: 1 Soldier or 20 Schools?

July 28, 2010 Source: The New York Times By Nicholas Kristof The war in Afghanistan will consume more money this year alone than we spent on the Revolutionary…
July 2nd, 2010: Congress Leads on Global Education: Will Obama Follow?

July 2, 2010 Source: The Huffington Post By Joanne Carter Recent developments in the global movement to provide a quality…
June 23rd, 2010: All the World’s Children Need Education

June 23, 2010Source: Hartford Courant By Erin DeRoy The World Cup, including the ringing of the vuvuzela…
June 14th, 2010: GMA: World Cup 2010: South Africa Transformed

June 14, 2010Source: Good Morning America (ABC) Good Morning America…
May 21st, 2010: Education: Progress Before Partisanship

May 21, 2010 Source: The News Tribune (Tacoma, WA) By Stacy Carkonen, Sumner, WARe: “Education and…
May 8th, 2010: NYT Op-Ed: Celebrate: Save a Mother

May 8, 2010 Source: New York Times By Nicholas Kristof Happy Mother’s Day! And let me be clear: I’m in favor of flowers, lavish brunches,…
April 28th, 2010: MLS Soccer: Colorado Rapids Support ‘Education for All’

April 28, 2010 Source: MLSsoccer.com By Katie Kulckyk The Colorado Rapids recently joined local community leaders on April 21 to…
April 23rd, 2010: Wall Street Journal: TFF 2010: Jessica Alba, Brian Hill Talk ‘Climate of Change’

April 23, 2010Source: The Wall Street Journal (Speakeasy blog)
April 22nd, 2010: MSNBC: Jessica Alba Advocates for Education

Luke Russert interviews Congresswoman Nita Lowey and actress Jessica Alba on MSNBC during Global Action Week. Click here to see the interview.
April 22nd, 2010: Washington Post: Hey, isn’t that…?: Jessica Alba, Kris Allen, that guy from “Heroes”

April 22, 2010Source: Washington Post (Reliable Source blog)
April 22nd, 2010: Momlogic: Jessica Alba Goes to Washington

April 22, 2010Source: momlogicBy Elizabeth Thorp
April 22nd, 2010: China Daily: Jessica Alba Campaigning for Education

April 22, 2010Source: The China Daily
April 22nd, 2010: Indian Express: Jessica Alba Supporting ‘Education for All’
April 22nd, 2010: Christian Science Monitor: Education for All Act Wants Universal Education Back on Track

April 21, 2010 Source: The Christian Science Monitor By Howard LaFranchi
April 21st, 2010: CNN: Pursuing Education for All
April 21st, 2010: The Hill: Actress Jessica Alba Heats Up Capitol Hill

April 21, 2010Source: The HillBy Christina Wilkie
April 21st, 2010: Washington Examiner: Alba Touts Education on Capitol Hill

April 21, 2010Source: Washington ExaminerBy Nikki Schwab and Tara Palmeri
April 21st, 2010: USA Today: Jessica Alba Launches Global Education Campaign

April 21, 2010Source: USA Today (Lifeline Live blog)
April 21st, 2010: Desmond Tutu: Facing the Future: Global Education at the Crossroads

April 21, 2010 Source: The Huffington Post By Desmond Tutu and Dennis Van RoekelWhen we see the face of a child, we think of the…

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