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Daw Aung San Suu Kyi makes an opening speech for the NLD's Charity Music Concert for Assisting Education of Ethnic People which was held successfully on 30th December 2011 at Myanmar Convention Center (MCC) Hall, Yangon. Visit myanmarcelebrity.com/ For More Myanmar Celebrity News, Gossips, Photos and Videos.

Oscar Barbarin is the Lila L. and Douglas J. Hertz Endowed Chair and Professor of Psychology at Tulane University. Dr. Barbarin earned the Ph.D. in clinical psychology at Rutgers University in 1975 and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in social psychology at Stanford University in 1983. He has held positions in Psychology, Social Work, and Afro-American & African Studies at the University of Michigan and University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and was president of the American Orthopsychiatry Association from 2001-2003. His research addresses the effects of early childhood intervention and the etiology of achievement and underachievement in ethnic minority children. He has also completed longitudinal studies of the effects of poverty, violence and family life from birth to age 5, and the socio-emotional development of South African Children. Dr. Barbarin has received several distinguished honors for his research and scholarship, including grants from the WT Grant Foundation, the WK Kellogg Foundation, and the National Institute of Health. Dr. Barbarins presentation this morning is titled

Recorded on June 30, 2010, this was the second webinar in the "Achieving Excellence and Innovation in Family, School, and Community Engagement" (FSCE) series. We are approaching a new day where family engagement is not just a program but a strategy used to improve student achievement and school performance, and where family engagement is seen as an innovation in and of itself. The Title I program, in particular, provides a key opportunity for innovations to emerge within family engagement to strengthen capacity and improve implementation. Engaging families and communities in the education of children can be an innovative and effective practice for boosting student achievement and school success. Yet, until recently, family involvement has been overlooked as education reform has focused primarily on the learning that occurs within school walls. However, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's recent proposal to double the Title I set aside for family involvement from 1 to 2 percent has made it more important than ever to bring effective family engagement strategies to the forefront of the discussion about how to improve student achievement. The Title I program provides an opportunity to be creative and innovative. Many promising practices in family engagement develop from the work of dedicated school staff and parent groups in Title I schools. While the first webinar in the Achieving Excellence series framed the discussion about family engagement as a systemic, integrated ...

Prof. Nalin de Silva speaks about english education in Sri Lanka

The Gifted Education Program (GEP, pronounced 'Jeep' or 'GE-P') is a nation-wide, public education program catering to the top 1% of each cohort in Singapore, as determined by two rounds of tests. It was first implemented in 1984. This amateur documentary features interviews with former GEP students, teachers and parents and these informal conversations cover a wide range of topics, including the academic aspects (pedagogy, curriculum) of the program, the racial/ethnic composition of the cohort, the social environment of the GEP community, the behavioural tendencies of GEPpers that may give rise to certain stereotypes about them, and so on. This documentary was not commissioned by any institution; it was not done for university course credit or for profit. None of the interviewees received any payment for their contributions. This documentary is also by no means a 'scientific' or expert appraisal of the program; the interviewee-sample is also highly unrepresentative (more details in the credits, but briefly: 1987-born GEPs are overrepresented, not all GEP centres are represented, despite efforts in that respect, GEPs now working in certain professions like the civil service also generally declined to be interviewed). This documentary is an independent venture done for fun, with the kind support of Professor Tan Ern Ser and the Media Development Lab at the National University of Singapore's (NUS) Faculty Arts and Social Sciences (FASS). Thanks to their support, the ...

Part 2| Does Malaysia's education system contribute to polarization of Malaysian society? Produced by Indrani Kopal Many deny that the dual system have contributed to racial polarisation and blame this on the country's ethnic based political party system and government policies. These discriminatory policies, such as access to college and university education, job opportunities in the government sector, poor career advancements for those already in government, they say, serve only to alienate the non-Malay population. So where do we go from here? Stick to a system that seems to be in denial of the needs of present day realities? Realities where globalisation is just not a buzz word but a recipe for national economic well-being and where chauvinism has less of a place in a global society. Or remain where we are and continue deepening resentment and distrust with each race championing their own language biases; ensuring that we are a divided nation. Speak to 'old timers' and they lament that it wasn't like this. There was a lot more acceptance, understanding then. But those were the days when national schools were popular with just about everyone, regardless of race. The existence of the vernacular school system is however guaranteed under the Federal Constitution. It is the right of Malaysian communities to have schools where subjects are taught in their ethnic tongues. And this is not going to change. What seems to be the strategy to get children at their most ...