In Africa, Free Schools Feed a Different Hunger
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Millions of children have poured into schools as country after country has made primary education free.
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Children from the most deprived areas of England are falling further behind in school achievement.
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As hundreds of thousands of baby boomers retire and the No Child Left Behind law raises standards for new teachers, school systems across the country are facing a growing scarcity of qualified recruits.
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Thereâs an ideological conflict between those who believe that Africa needs better aid and those who think entrepreneurialism and technology will lift the continent.
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By Beth Sussman  High school students Nick Anderson and Ana Slavin of Gill, Mass., knew they could raise some money at their school to help the people of Darfur. But they knew they could raise a lot more by enlisting the help of high school students all over the country.
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Hunger and malnutrition kill more than 5 million children each year and cost developing countries billions of dollars in lost productivity, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) annual hunger report.
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Sandra Senda wanted a free private tutor for her kids, just like the No Child Left Behind law promised. She had no idea the deal came with a big headache.
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Off-campus eating may undermine school nutrition efforts.
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DROWNING IN DEBT: African nations say debt incurred by past generations is keeping them poor and unable to cope with pressing needs, such as the AIDS epidemic.
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Pupils at a school are fed fish and chips through the gates by parents who say the canteen does not provide what their children want.
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If it wasn't for churches and religious charities, a lot of folks would go hungry in the United States this winter. But while most churches believe in helping the poor, they take different views on how to go about it.
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MADRID, Dec 3 (IPS) - The only classroom for the mentally disabled in the   tiny West African nation of Equatorial Guinea is run by two  non-governmental  organisations, because for the government, the  mentally handicapped do not  exist, an activist told IPS in  Spain.
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One of the biggest reasons that very poor countries can&#39;t provide decent education and health care is that they are stuck in a cycle of debt owed to the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and regional development banks, much of it dating to the
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Oxfam says more than half of Afghan children are missing out on school because of a lack of teachers and places.
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LISBON, Dec 13 (IPS) - War, AIDS, malaria, cholera and famine have  gradually turned Africa into a continent full of orphaned  children and teenagers.
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India faces the difficulty of educating its children in public schools that have sunk to spectacularly low levels.
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A young girl in Zimbabwe brings back food for the night for her family -- a handful of rats to help them get by for another day. "Look what we've been reduced to eating?" her mother says. It's not an uncommon sight in Zimbabwe, once considered southern Africa's bread basket and now on the sharp decline. Critics point to one man for the country's ails: President Robert Mugabe.