Where you work affects your risk of dying by suicide. For example, loggers, musicians and workers in the oil and gas industries have much higher rates of suicide than the rest of the population. But on the flip side, some professions have very low rates of suicide. One of them is education. National and state data shows […]
The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on April 30, 2025, in what could be the most consequential case for public education since the court started requiring schools to desegregate in the years following Brown v. Board of Education. St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School v. Drummond – and its companion case, Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v. Drummond –
Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday card from his grandmother. He opened the card, looked at it and said, “I can’t read cursive yet.” Then he handed it to me to read. If you have a child in the Philadelphia School District, chances are they have not been taught how to read or write
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A new ranking by UN Women and the Inter-Parliamentary Union puts Nigeria 179th out of 185 countries for the percentage of women in the national legislature. Women currently make up only 3.9% of seats in the House of Representatives. In the Senate, three of the 108 current members are women. In the executive branch, women head eight of 45 (17.8%) of ministries. This absence of women in
Nigerian children don’t imagine women as political leaders: what shapes their view Read More »
Oando Foundation (OF), an independent charity organisation established by Oando Plc (Nigeria’s leading energy company), to support the Federal Government in achieving its Universal Basic Education (UBE) goal, has disclosed that it has earmarked over N1 billion to execute its 2025 Foundational Learning Improvement Programme (LEARNOVATE-FLIP) projects in various Nigerian schools across the country in
LEARNOVATE: Oando Foundation to spend over N1bn on schools projects to bolster education Read More »
Think of a garden. Each plant has different needs—some require more sunlight, others need shade; some need deep soil, others thrive in shallow ground. But with the right environment, every plant can grow and flourish. Similarly, deaf students with multiple disabilities—sometimes identifying as deafblind, deafdisabled, deafplus, or deaf+—need specific tools and accommodations to thrive academically and socially.
Almost four decades after Nigeria dispensed with a cocoa-industry regulatory board in 1986, a new executive bill is working its way to the legislature to create a replacement. By the time it was scrapped, the cocoa marketing board, which fixed prices and regulated other industry practices, was so hated by farmers that it was seen
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