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Education · October, 2007
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Stories about Education from October, 2007

30 October 2007

Korea: School Field Trips and Income Gap

Written by Hyejin Kim · East Asia

School excursions are memorable experiences. Being in unfamiliar circumstances and spending several nights with friends give the chance to build stronger friendships and to better understand teachers and other friends....

China: Province scraps Hukou system

Written by John Kennedy · Quick Reads · East Asia

29 October 2007

Jamaica: Slave Mentality

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco · Quick Reads · Caribbean

27 October 2007

Japan: Racial profiling in the U.S. and Japan

Written by Chris Salzberg · Quick Reads · East Asia

25 October 2007

Iran:Bookstores in trouble

Written by Fred Petrossian · Quick Reads · Middle East & North Africa

China: Affirmative Action for Rural Students

Written by Oiwan Lam · Quick Reads · East Asia

23 October 2007

China: Heavy schooling fees and migrant workers

Written by Meng Zhang · East Asia

Yuan Guiren, Chinese Vice Education Minister, emphasized the equal education rights for the migrant workers’ children at the CPC press conference last Saturday. However, the tough reality makes some migrant...

Hong Kong: University Master Plan

Written by Oiwan Lam · Quick Reads · East Asia

22 October 2007

Uganda: Poverty and Paris Hilton

Written by Rebekah Heacock · Sub-Saharan Africa

Wednesday's Public Poverty Forum in Kampala had one blogger, Tumwijukue, asking, “Did they (re)define poverty? Did they speak of poverty of the mind? Or did they merely use the event...