A test of any country’s educational system is its literacy rate. What would you guess the worldwide literacy rate to be? I was impressed to learn, according to UNESCO, that the global youth literacy rate (ages 15-24) over the last two decades has increased from 83% to 91%. Keep in mind that these percentages are based on...
In these unprecedented times, it seems important to continue to amplify the voices of those being impacted by the seismic shift in education. In Part 2 of this two-part series, you will hear from teachers and principals (and a bonus student!) as they react, respond and manage education from home. This primary source content was...
photo source: Adrianne GeorgeWelcome to the third installment of resources for you to use at home with your kids! NEW this week is the Preschool through 12th Grade Curriculum Overview created by Time4Learning. Also, all resources are now listed below for quicker and easier access! This week’s offerings feature resources for...
June 19th is Juneteenth, a date commemorated by many African-Americans since the late 1800s. On this date in 1865, about two months after Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s surrender, Union General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas. He informed people that the Civil War had ended and those enslaved in Texas were free. The enslaved people in Texas, about 250,000, were...
The first contact I had with the concept of planting trees to compensate the emissions produced by air travel was at the first FAWCO Conference
I attended in Stockholm in 2003. Environment Committee Chair Valerie Garforth, had a chart with distances from various cities to Stockholm and the number of trees one needed to...
In 2005 FAWCO made a commitment to malaria prevention. Since FAWCO’s main focus was the purchase of insecticide treated bed nets (ITNs and LLITNs), the initiative was called “Networks” and between 2006 and 2009 a total of $165,885 was raised by our member organizations with another $100,000 coming from the Hilton...
Malaria is one of the world’s greatest tragedies. FAWCO has had a special interest in malaria prevention since 2005 when we started our very successful malaria initiative “NetWorks”. This was FAWCO’s first global project and the precursor to today’s Target Program. At that time, the parasitic infection transmitted by mosquitoes...
Remember the days when you might have thought homeschooling was a concept only hippies or recluses could embrace? When you thought, “no way would I keep my kids home all day”? Does it seem like a long time ago that you thought, “I’m no educator, I’m just a parent”? For many...
Fly means “to soar through air; move through the air with wings,” the Old English fleogan: “to fly, take flight, rise into the air.” Migratory 
birds connect people, ecosystems, cultures, development and nations, offering an extraordinary opportunity for international collaboration. “They are symbols of peace and of an interconnected planet,” says Secretary-General António Guterres of the...
Many hearts were warmed by photos like this from Davos 2019. How could they not be? Looking at each other with mutual respect and admiration, young climate change activist Greta Thunberg and scientist and conservation advocate Jane Goodall spoke to the ongoing struggle to care for our planet.
The picture was also gratifying because it...
