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Ban to Burma

UN Dispatch at 7/3/2009 11:53AM

Secretary General Ban Ki Moon is en route to Burma/Myanmar to press for the release of Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. Evelyn Leopold, a long time United Nations correspondent, previews the tri...

Meat your new IAEA chief

UN Dispatch at 7/3/2009 10:18AM

Posting will be light today, but I wanted to flag this news: Yeterday, the International Atomic Energy Agency Board of Governors elected Japan's Yukiya Amano to be the next Director General of t...

Ban Ki Moon saying useful things in the New York Times

UN Dispatch at 7/2/2009 4:50PM

I have an embarrassing crush on Ban Ki Moon. You really can’t blame me. He raps! He married his high school sweetheart!...

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deenalarsen at 7/16/2008 11:07PM

Children now have a choice between entering a muslim fundamentalist training camp or not being educated at all. Create an online education forum in their native language that respects their culture, and provide cheap solar laptops to communities and schools to help provide an educated population in the Middle East . This way, children can become educated without having to become terrorists.

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Education has a chance to leads us the good welfare of the institutional background and leads us to the common good of others. Towards to the fulfillment of success.
Education is truly an important aspect in the success of a nation. A new administration is about to take over, and education is a topic that’s hovering on the minds of many. What will president-elect Barack Obama do to improve the massive groups of students and teachers in America? In an article at The Apple, Obama’s first step into the development of education is focused on No Child Left Behind. He does not intend to scrap the program, but he does want to reform it, particularly when it comes to standardize testing. He is against preparing students all year to “fill out bubbles.” As long as the performance is up to standard, both Obama and Vice-President Elect Biden will support charter schools. Teachers at charter schools and beyond find Obama's incentives like Teacher Service Scholarships and various pay rewards hopeful. Moreover, a major part of the president-elect’s proposal is to enhance Early Head Start Programs and provide tax credits for college education. Restoring faith in the American educational system via these ideas and more will surely lead to the kind of credit repair the country needs – where the currency is a vibrant workforce that is equipped and ready to lead America into the future. Click to learn more about Credit Repair.

Credit Repair (Unverified) at 11/27/2008 4:24AM

So what should we do when a child commits a crime? Lock ‘em up… period. No rehabilitation; no counseling, right? Prior to the establishment of the Juvenile Court, children who were charged with delinquent actswere primarily tried in the criminal justice system, but age did play a role in presumptions of criminalresponsibility. Individuals under the age of fourteen were presumed not to possess the sufficient criminal responsibility to commit a crime, though the presumption was refutable between the ages of seven and fourteenApparently that is exactly what the government is doing to save some extra cash. Kentucky, Tennessee and South Carolina are among states that have slashed juvenile justice spending because of the troubling state budgets. In some cases, they have made cuts up to 20 percent or more. It’s quite disappointing that the government is unable to find other undemanding programs to cut. Instead they are taking money away from prevention and rehabilitation and sending juveniles back to traditional correctional facilities. Obviously, if the number of child criminals who re-offend goes back up, the number of adults who get thrown in the slammer will go up right along with it. This is going to create a bigger battle than what they are currently fighting. If you want to learn more, this article talks about which programs are getting axed in the government’s quest to save extra cash.

Aleena D. (Unverified) at 1/5/2009 1:30AM