American students saw big declines in reading and math scores after years of disrupted learning due to the pandemic. The National Assessment of Educational Progress, also known as the Nation’s Report Card, released full data Monday for the first time since 2019. The 2021 exams were postponed a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. NAEP […]...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AA) – University lecturers in Nigeria have suspended their strike after eight months following several appeals by authorities and a court order to resume work, a union announced. The strike was suspended following a court judgement earlier this week and interventions by the country’s President Muhammadu Buhari, ...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistan’s Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai visited a school in the southern port city of Karachi on Tuesday, stressing the need for improvement in the quality of education, particularly for girls. Yousafzai, who is also the “UN Messenger of Peace” with a special focus on girls’ education, is visiting Pakistan to assess...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Saudi Arabia has reopened a number of Turkish schools closed by the kingdom last year, according to a Turkish diplomat. “A number of schools run by the Turkish Education Ministry began to operate,” Huseyin Eren Yildiz from the Turkish Consulate in Jeddah city told Anadolu Agency. He said Turkish primary schools in […]...
Kabul, Afghanistan (AFP): Students of the minority Hazara community remain unfazed by the obstacles to education in Afghanistan and have pledged that they will return to class. “Education is our weapon and they want to take this weapon away from us,” said 19-year-old Wajiha, a day after escaping the assault that killed 35. “I...
Tadif, Syria (AFP): In a frontline town divided by regime and rebel forces in northwest Syria, students have returned to classrooms in a bombed-out building with no glass in the windows, no doors, desks, chairs or electricity. Girls carrying pink backpacks play alongside boys with blue ones in the courtyard of their school in Tadif, […]
JERUSALEM (AA) – Palestinian schools in occupied East Jerusalem went on strike on Monday to protest Israeli attempts to impose textbooks that attempt to wipe out Palestinian national identity. The one-day strike was staged in response to a call by a coalition of national and Islamic factions in the city. “We reject Israel’s attempt...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – A new report from Bangladesh’s Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education (DSHE) indicates that 481,000 students dropped out of school due to rising poverty and income disparity in the country. The report said that of the total, at least 10% were female victims of child marriage, while 16% male children ...
LAGOS, Nigeria (AA) – Nigerians on Wednesday lamented the declaration earlier this week of an indefinite total strike by university lecturers in the country. Taiwo Amodu, a public servant and parent based in the capital Abuja, told Anadolu Agency that the announcement of a total strike will further exacerbate tensions among parents and u...
Kabul, Afghanistan (AFP): Afghan university students will have to attend more compulsory Islamic studies classes, education officials said Tuesday while giving little sign that secondary schools for girls would reopen. “We are adding five more religious subjects to the existing eight,” said Abdul Baqi Haqqani, minister for higher e...
