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Parents play a crucial role in their children’s education, serving as their first teachers and lifelong champions.
This category explores the partnership between parents and educators in supporting children’s learning and development.
Articles in this category cover a range of topics, including fostering a supportive home environment for learning, promoting parental involvement in education, and nurturing critical thinking skills in children.
Whether you’re a parent looking for guidance on how to support your child’s education or an educator seeking to strengthen the home-school partnership, our articles aim to provide practical tips and insights to help families navigate the educational journey together.
Yemen’s Lost Generation: Scale of the Education Collapse and the Human Cost The story of education in Yemen since 2015 is one of systemic breakdown and human loss. Conflict has turned classrooms into ruins and corridors into provisional learning spaces. As an education specialist observing the situation closely, I follow the path of a young …
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Community-led Shelter Responses in Mali: How Local Action Becomes a SafeHaven Around the rural towns and peri-urban neighborhoods of Mali, communities have learned that shelter is more than a roof; it is the foundation for education, dignity, and recovery. In the story of Awa, a volunteer teacher and community organizer from Mopti, we see how …
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San Antonio school districts downgraded in new ratings: understanding why the city tops Texas in failing schools San Antonio has become a focal point in discussions about public education across Texas. The recent release by Children at Risk — a prominent advocacy group — shows that the city has the highest proportion of Failing Schools …
Scope of Parental Incarceration and Its Immediate Effects on Children’s Academic Achievement Parental incarceration is a pervasive social issue that directly influences the educational trajectories of millions of children. Current estimates indicate that roughly 2.6 million U.S. children have at least one incarcerated parent, and by early adolescence many children—about one in 14—have experienced a …
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Why COP30 in Belém Must Place Children’s Education at the Center of Climate Negotiations Mariana, a primary school teacher in Pará who grew up near the Amazon basin, wakes early to assess her classroom after a night of heavy rain. Her students’ textbooks are damp, the playground is waterlogged, and several families have temporarily relocated …
COP30: Put Children’s Education at the Heart of Climate Discussions in Belém The gathering in Belém for COP30 presents a decisive opportunity to reframe how global leaders consider the intersection of climate and learning. For advocates, the objective is clear: move education from the margins of climate policy into the central agenda. Evidence presented by …
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Transforming Overtown: Lotus House Children’s Village as a Learning Hub and Community Support Center The opening of the Children’s Village by Lotus House represents a deliberate effort to create a multi-dimensional Learning Hub and Community Support Center in the heart of Overtown. The project, completed after more than three years of planning and construction, consolidates …
PA Admission: Palestinian Authority Confesses to Prioritizing Terror Payments Over Children’s Education In a widely reported development that has reverberated through education and human rights communities, a senior Palestinian Authority official publicly acknowledged that the PA places higher priority on providing financial rewards to convicted attackers and families of deceased militants than on fully funding …
Animated Song Introduces the Dalai Lama’s Four Principal Commitments to Young Learners In 2025, the Department of Education of the Central Tibetan Administration released an Animated Song that distills the Dalai Lama‘s Four Principal Commitments into a format tailored for children. This initiative, timed to honor the Year of Compassion and the celebration of Tibetan …
Why Universal Age-13 Reading Tests Fail to Solve the Literacy Crisis Maya, a fictional chair of governors at a large secondary school in a deprived coastal town, watches cohorts arrive in Year 7 with very different reading profiles. Maya knows that simply adding a universal test at age 13 will not suddenly close the gap …