News from Committing to Child Education – AllAfrica.com: Osogbo — The failure of successive administrations in Nigeria to bring up the nation’s children socially and educationally has been described as the reason behind high spate of terrorist activities presently rocking the country in form of Boko Haram insurgency. There is the claim that uneducated and [...]

News from New Vision: Mpabulungi gives tailoring lessons to teenagers at her home in Jinja. Photos by George Bita Every year New Vision, in its Woman Achiever Awards, recognises the unsung heroines, those women who have gone an extra mile to improve the conditions in their communities.   In the ninth edition, New Vision, in [...]

Fresno State ceremony honors African American high school graduatesNews from Fresno Bee: Central High School graduate Michiah Quick receives a kente cloth during the annual African American High School Recognition Ceremony put on for local area African American graduates by the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority at Fresno State University Sunday, June 1, 2014. CRAIG KOHLRUSS — THE FRESNO BEE |Buy Photo Clovis [...]

News from MLive.com: Back in the day, when you messed up at school, you not only got in trouble with the teacher, but when you got home you got a double dose of trouble from your parents. Oh my, the cultural sea change. Now if you misbehave at school, you get in trouble with the [...]

News from THISDAY Live: Chibok school girls Plans counselling centres for parents, abducted girls Damilola Oyedele in AbujaThe federal government has expressed regret that the abduction of the female students of the Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, may erode some of the gains made in promoting girl-child education and balancing the gender gap in [...]

The Net Charter High School to use grants to add special-education servicesNews from The lens: The NET Charter High School will have a larger operating budget next school year due to sizable grants and new revenue this year. The board of Educators for Quality Alternatives, which oversees the school, discussed the proposed budget for the [...]

News from Leadership Newspapers: Chibok Schoolgirls: We’ll Not Give Up On Girl Child Education – School Principal Kareem Haruna — May 30, 2014 Mrs Asabe Kwambura, the principal of Government Secondary School Chibok, from where over 200 girls were abducted last month by the Boko Haram sect, said yesterday that the condemnable kidnapping should not [...]

BCC honors education partnersNews from Great Bend Tribune: Barton Community College President Carl Heilman Thursday afternoon recognized area employers and their partnership with BCC. During the BCC Board of Trustees meeting, he presented Employer Engagement Initiative Awards from the Kansas Board of Regents and the Kansas Department of Commerce to the businesses for their efforts [...]

Pompton Lakes High School prepares students for collegeNews from NorthJersey.com: Officials gave an overview of the unique opportunities available through the Pompton Lakes High School (PLHS) Inter-district School Choice program at the May 12 Board of Education (BOE) meeting. For the past academic year, the PLHS has been participating in the School Choice program, which [...]

Meet Louisville’s outstanding high school seniors – The Courier-JournalNews from Meet Louisville’s outstanding high school seniors – The Courier-Journal: The Courier-Journal 2:46 p.m. EDT May 23, 2014 Close up of a graduation cap and a certificate with a ribbon(Photo: Stockbyte, Getty Images) 3 CONNECTcontinues on Meet Louisville’s outstanding high school seniors – The Courier-Journal … [...]