In the most exhaustive account of the issue to date, the Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack (GCPEA) Thursday released a 250-page report detailing attacks on schools, universities, teachers, students and academics, by both state and non-state actors.
Covering the five-year period from 2009-2012, and following on the heels of less comprehensive studies put forth by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) in 2007 and 2010, "Education Under Attack 2014" documents threats and the deliberate use of force against those involved in educational activities for "political, military, ideological, sectarian, ethnic or religious reasons."

There are about 900 new additions to the Oxford English Dictionary, announced this week, including first-timers like 'bathroom break,' 'beatboxer,' 'DIYer,' 'scissor-kick' and— wait for it —'scimitar-horned oryx'

Recent research shows that brain development is buoyed by continuous interaction with parents and caregivers from birth, and that even before age 2, the children of the wealthy know more words than do those of the poor. So the recorder acts as a tool for instructing Deisy’s parents on how to turn even a visit to the kitchen into a language lesson. It is part of an ambitious campaign, known as Providence Talks, that is aimed at the city’s poorest residents and intended to reduce the knowledge gap long before school starts. It is among a number of such efforts being undertaken throughout the country.

“I’d been thinking of a method that would do least harm to the body of a child with such a problem, and finally came up with this method. Injecting stem cells through hepatic artery requires least penetration into the body and its organs, and thus it minimizes the possible trauma from surgery.”

TT - Đó là kết quả từ cuộc điều tra quốc gia về lao động trẻ em được Bộ Lao động - thương binh và xã hội công bố sáng 14-3. TS Nguyễn Thị Lan Hương, viện trưởng Viện Khoa học lao động và xã hội, cho biết kết quả điều tra trong ba tháng năm 2012 cho thấy VN hiện có khoảng 18,3 triệu trẻ em trong độ tuổi 5-17, trong đó 1,75 triệu em (chiếm 9,6%) đang phải làm việc và được xếp vào nhóm lao động trẻ em, tức là làm việc nhiều giờ.

Các nhà ‘‘nhiếp ảnh’’ Pháp, tiêu biểu nhất là Emile Gsell (1838-1879), Gustave Ernest Trumelet-Faber (1852-1916), Charles-Edouard Hocquard (1853-1911), Aurélien Pestel (1855-1897), Firmin-André Salles (1860-1929), Pierre Dieulefils (1862-1937) … đã thu vào ống kính những hình ảnh về Việt Nam dưới nhiều góc độ : danh lam thắng cảnh, nếp sống sinh hoạt, văn hóa xã hội, đất nước con người.
Các thông tin liên quan đến các cuộc triển lãm :
‘‘Quan hệ Việt-Pháp qua bốn thế kỷ’’ : Centre d’accueil et de recherche des Archives nationales - CARAN, 11 rue des Quatre-Fils 75003 Paris, từ 20/03 đến 20/05/2014. Vào cửa miễn phí từ 10 giờ đến 17giờ 30, ngoại trừ thứ Bảy và Chủ Nhật.
Triển lãm "Objectif Vietnam", ảnh chụp Việt Nam vào thế kỷ XX của trường Viễn Đông Bác Cổ tại viện bảo tàng Cernuschi, 7 avenue Velasquez 75008 Paris, từ 14/03 đến 29/06/2014
Hội thảo quốc tế "De l'Indochine coloniale au viet Nam actuel" (Từ thuộc địa Đông Dương đến Việt Nam hiện thời) với sự tham gia của các trường đại học Paris IV, Lyon III và dậi học Nantes, từ 20/03 đến 22/03/2014.

The survey, conducted in 8 cities and provinces across the country, was given to nearly 2,600 Vietnamese families, or 5,297 people, between the ages of 18 and 69. The data revealed that 38% would support the legalization of gay marriage.

This exercise, which held a prekindergarten class in Brooklyn riveted one morning last week, was not an effort to introduce high-impact aerobics into preschool. It was part of an ambitious experiment involving 4,000 children, lasting more than six years and costing $25 million, and designed to answer a fundamental question: When it comes to preschool, what actually works?

A new report released by the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, examining the disciplinary practices of the country’s 97,000 public schools, shows that excessively punitive policies are being used at every level of the public school system — even against 4-year-olds in preschool. This should shame the nation and force it to re-evaluate the destructive measures that schools are using against their most vulnerable children.

In choosing which college to attend, about 46 percent say the cost of attendance was very important – the highest percentage found since the UCLA survey started asking the cost question 10 years ago.