Education & Community

(How You can Help Reform the Education System and Improve Your Community)

The Importance of Global Education

Education is the foundation for everything we have in this world. Our cars, bridges, televisions, satellites and cell phones exist only because our educational system produced people who could imagine them, engineer them, and build them.

Education is the solution to all problems generated by ignorance - from racial and religious discrimination to starvation and obesity. Education is the foundation of the future of the world. What we teach our children today will create the world we live in tomorrow.

Problems with our Educational Systems

In America and in many other countries so many good people are left behind by a poorly managed and poorly funded educational system. Graduation rates in some inner city schools are appalling. Unions make it almost impossible to fire a bad teacher, and lack of funding makes it impossible to hire and train new teachers. In addition, colleges and other secondary institutions have begun to raise fees in response to decreased state and federal funding making education more expensive and less available.

In other parts of the world the problem isn't a bad educational system but instead a complete lack of educational opportunities. Imagine having to pay for your child to go to Elementary School. How many children are forced into a dark life of ignorance because of this?

Global Educational Reform

The right to a free education, the right to learn, should be a basic right of all human beings.

Education reform means making schools and teachers accountable for the performance of their students but at the same time giving them the means by which they can improve their performance. It means offering educational opportunities to those who have previously been left behind. It means reexamining both what we teach and the way we teach it.

Your community shapes you. A positively oriented community based on sharing, support, and service will produce a very different type of person than a community based on materialism, selfishness, and competition. A community where crime rates are high and opportunites are low will produce more criminals. A community where public service and education is valued will produce the type of citizens needed to face the challenges of the future.

Our goal is to help communities create and execute projects that will bring people together to make the world a better place to live in.

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What we teach our children today is what the world we be like tomorrow. Part of that equation is our educational systems and part of it is the morals, values, and beliefs created by the communities in which we live.

This is why maximizing educational opporunities and giving hope, assistance, and guidance to our underprivileged communities is an important part of our goal of making the world a better place.

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Education and Community News Enrolling Uninsured Kids in Health Care Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:40:00 GMT Secretaries Sebelius and Duncan announced a national coalition to enroll five million children in Medicaid and CHIP within five years. Support for Education Jobs Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:35:00 GMT Alabama, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Nebraska, and Tennessee are among the states that will receive funding to support education jobs. Beyond the Bubble Tests Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:36:00 GMT Read Secretary Duncan's remarks to state leaders about Race to the Top Assessment winners and the next generation of assessments. Joint Agreement for New Orleans Recovery Fri, 27 Aug 2010 22:08:00 GMT Secretary Duncan and other Obama administration officials announced a $1.8 billion agreement to help renovate and rebuild schools in New Orleans. Back to School Tour Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:18:00 GMT Secretary Duncan is taking a bus tour to visit schools, honor and listen to teachers, meet with parents and students, and highlight success. See video, photos, and stories in the blog.