Root is a small, squat hexagon, a cheerful and friendly ‘bot reminiscent of the robot vacuum-cleaning Roomba. Scanners dot its bottom, bumpers line its sides, and there’s a touch interface on top. Root knows when it’s on a magnetic surface. A …
ABC: Crackle and static of radio remembered as Katherine School of the Air celebrates 50th anniversary.
The Katherine School of the Air (KSA) celebrates its 50th anniversary with past students, parents and teachers. Originally operating from a spare room at the Katherine Area School, (KSA) was the first distance school to operate separately from the Royal …
Huffington Post: 2 Years After #BringBackOurGirls, Boko Haram Is Still Attacking Schools
Boko Haram’s violence has caused nearly one million children in Northeast Nigeria alone to have little or no access to education, according to a new Human Rights Watch (HRW) report. Since 2009, the militant group has been attacking schools, teachers and students, …
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The Guardian: The dark side of Guardian comments
Research into our own comment threads provides the first quantitative evidence for what female journalists have long suspected: that articles written by women attract more abuse and dismissive trolling than those written by men, regardless of what the article is …
UNDP: Sustainable Development Goal 4: Quality education
Since 2000, there has been enormous progress in achieving the target of universal primary education. The total enrolment rate in developing regions reached 91 percent in 2015, and the worldwide number of children out of school has dropped by almost …
YouTube: Master Ayub’s Park School in Pakistan
Master Ayub started teaching a group of four students in Islamabad’s sector, F-6. The students have been increasing exponentially and currently 200 students are enrolled in the school. All the students studying at the school are underprivileged and are being …
BBC News: Too many school libraries face cuts or closure
Too many school libraries in England face cuts or closure with schools increasingly viewing books as obsolete, a teachers’ union has heard. One head teacher decided “all reading can be done on iPads,” a delegate told the Association of Teachers …