Betsy Devos Speaks On Need to Bring More Education Opportunities to America’s Children
“I want to tell everyone today you are either for children or against children when it comes to educational freedom and choice in education.” So said Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President Donald Trump, who spoke Thursday with Education Secretary Betsy DeVos at the Conservative Political Action Conference about the need to bring more education opportunities to America’s children. Conway said support for school choice is broad among the general public, yet a deep partisan divide exists on the issue, as the Trump administration has found. “There is no ‘but,’ there is no excuse, there is no talk of ‘But the teacher unions …,’” she told the CPAC crowd. “You are either helping these brown and black and rural children get more opportunities, or you’re not.” Choice in public education often is blocked by liberals at the state level who protect unions whose members work for badly run public schools, Conway…
KENYA: Azuri Technologies Encourages Rural Women to Use Solar Energy
Solar home systems provider Azuri Technologies has recently launched the “Brighter Lives” project in Nairobi, Kenya. The initiative aims to encourage rural women to…
Ensuring Pastoralist Survival in Chad
“We are connected to nature, we find our resources in nature, we protect it; nature is completely intertwined with our culture and way of…
What does your Child Want to be versus What problems do they want to solve?
Business and Academic experts from around the world, have said that by 2030, 85 per cent of the jobs that will exist have not…
Do The Best You Can In Every Task
“Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a…
Afropop Singer Angélique Kidjo Wins ‘Best World Music’ Grammy Award
Angélique Kidjo, Beninese singer emerges winner of the Best World Music Album, recently at the 62nd GRAMMY Awards 2020. Her emergence is hinged on…
Taiwan’s TAITRA Seeks to Empower Women Entrepreneurs
In efforts to tap into the full potential of women entrepreneurs, Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) is set to organize for the first…
Saudi Arabia’s Human Resources Development Fund Program Supports Over 2,500 Working Women
Saudi Arabia is still working rigorously towards integrating more women across the board, from supporting their appointment in top leadership positions and celebrating their…
Heroine of the Week
Norah AlOtaibi The Female Engineer Challenging Perceptions in Saudi Arabia The 23rd of January 2020 was a special day for CELD and Amazons Watch…
Magda Mostafa – Harnessing the Power of Creativity as a Problem-solving tool
If you are attentive to the daily life happenings in society, you will likely observe that people are always left in awe and amazement…
Proffering Innovative Solution to Period Poverty
By Miracle Nwankwo “Meeting the hygiene needs of all adolescent girls is a fundamental issue of human rights, dignity, and public health,” says Sanjay…
Read This Before You Start Up That Business
The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) 2016/ 17 women’s report shows that women entrepreneurial activity globally is up by 10 percent, closing the gender gap…
