A Global Take on Reform at Ontario’s Building Blocks for Education Summit

By Tim Walker Listening to education experts and policymakers at an international education summit in Toronto this week, NEA Executive Committee member Princess Moss knew that she was hearing innovative ideas to meet the challenges facing the world’s classrooms. “It was exciting to learn about the approaches being taken in Finland and Singapore, especially,” Moss [...]

Tackling Child Labor With Education

More than 200 million children scattered across the globe work in conditions intolerable to the healthiest adults. From construction sites in Afghanistan to factories in Albania to farms in rural Morocco to domestic workers in El Salvador, children between the ages of 6 and 14 work long hours in grim, often dangerous conditions. Sadly, millions [...]

Teacher Executed in Iran

By Tim Walker The National Education Association joins Education International (EI) this week in condemning the execution of  Farzad Kamangar, an Iranian teacher and member of the Teachers’ Trade Association of Kurdistan. The Iranian government arrested Kamangar in 2006 for  “endangering national security” and “enmity again God.” After a trial that lasted five minutes, at which he [...]

NEA VP Joins Jessica Alba in Call for Universal Education

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-PRMA5GAUA[/youtube] By Ankita Rao An inspiring mix of Hollywood stars, athletes and Congressional leaders joined NEA Vice President Lily Eskelsen on Capitol Hill Wednesday for a Global Action Week event, organized by the Global Campaign for Education (GCE). Supporting a theme of Financing Quality Public Education: A Right For All, Esklelsen, actress Jessica Alba, and Rep. [...]

New Generation Joins Forest Fight in Burkina Faso

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