Giving Slum Children A New Sense of Class
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NEW DELHI -- Neelamdevi Thakur lives in a working-class slum and earns a living washing dishes in middle-class homes twice a day. In the past year, two of her five children, who attend an affluent private school, have returned home speaking words that she had never heard from her other children, who...
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LAGOS, Nigeria -- Seventeen-year-old Stella Felix rises at 5 a.m. to do chores and then walks nearly an hour to school. She has to share textbooks with schoolmates because her parents can't afford to buy them, and she does homework by candlelight.
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When we think of spaces designed with children in mind, gaudy colours, cartoon characters and cheap plastic furniture spring to mind. But that's all changing with a new generation of fresh, modern spaces designed for kids.
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Disadvantaged children lagging a full year behind before they start school.
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Children as young as four are being taught philosophy in nursery in a bid to encourage good thinking.
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A curriculum shake-up will see children spending more time learning through play at primary school.
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There is an immense problem of inequality in this country, and sharing the skills and connections that some of us have could help solve it.
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Children are being presented with healthier choices for school dinners and in vending machines.
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Ugandan children who have completed primary school benefit from free education at many secondary schools.
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Clever poor children face being overtaken by less bright children from affluent homes, a study says.
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Here was the idea: Students from low-income inner-city backgrounds could perform as well as better-off suburban students &#151; if they had a school that gave them proper support.
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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 hip-hop style helps bring a generation gap into full view.
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Two new films shed light on Pakistan's deep-rooted social and political problems by looking at them through the eyes of a child.
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A campaign to attract more graduates to teaching promotes the attraction of working with children.
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Children from poor familes say fear of debt deterred them from university
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Designed for schoolchildren in developing countries, these inexpensive, stripped-down portables are drawing lots of interest from the gadget set.