Education

Education for the Voiceless: India’s Muslim Students Still Ignored and Underserved

Huff Post: by Brianna Sacks — MUMBAI, INDIA– The bell rings, and nearly 700 Muslim students pour fromAnjuman-I-Islam school’s worn, stone buildings onto a dusty quad. Their plain, blue-and-white, government-sponsored uniforms mask the reality that 97 percent of these secondary school students come from ghettos, slums and illiterate families. Despite the […]

260,000 graduates in minimum wage jobs

By Emily Jane Fox @emilyjanefox March 31, 2014: 7:06 AM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney) If you thought paying tens of thousands of dollars for a college education guaranteed a high-paying job, think again. About 260,000 people who had a college or professional degree made at or below the federal minimum […]

Questions to ask for New Year

Source: CNN So I invite you, whatever your stage of life, to explore these questions. Ask them of yourself. Talk with family and friends about them. Write and share your reflections. Feel free to adapt and revise the questions to suit your circumstances. And let us know on Twitter what the experience […]

A RISING WAVE OF ATTENTION

GirlRising – Flash mobs were last year’s trend, but this year it’s all about the lightning strength of the Girl Risingmovement– hundreds of people inspiring others to take action in their own communities by spreading a simple message: Educate girls, change the world. These new advocates for girls gather less surprisingly and […]