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India tries coding camps, craft centers and all-girls schools to fight illiteracy

The Hechinger Report

And despite India’s push to guarantee a good education to all children between the ages of 6 and 14 under the country’s Right to Education Act of 2009, most students will not finish school. billion people, India is second only to China in population, and will account for 25 percent of the world’s labor pool by 2030. With over 1.3

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The 2019 Global Education Conference - Full List of 130 Sessions and 10 Keynotes!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

She joined AFS-USA in 2009 as Business Development Strategist. CCSSO is a nonpartisan, nationwide, nonprofit organization of public officials who head departments of elementary and secondary education in the states, the District of Columbia, the Department of Defense Education Activity, the Bureau of Indian Education and the five U.S.

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10 years later, goal of getting more Americans through college is way behind schedule

The Hechinger Report

President Barack Obama delivers a speech at Macomb County Community College July 14, 2009 in Warren, Michigan. Within a decade, he said on that day in 2009, community colleges like Macomb would collectively boost their number of graduates by five million. A decade later, progress has been slow. Bill Pugliano/Getty Images.

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