Of all the compelling statistics about a nation that is seeing most of its wealth consolidated in the hands of a few oligarchs, one of the most distressing is that the number of homeless students in the United States is rising every year - and is currently at record levels.
The report released Monday shows that homeless children enrolled in public preschool and grades K-12 jumped 8 percent from the previous school year to hit 1,258,182.

BOSTON — Nine years old and orphaned by ethnic genocide, he was living in a burned-out car in a Rwandan garbage dump where he scavenged for food and clothes. Daytimes, he was a street beggar. He had not bathed in more than a year.
When an American charity worker, Clare Effiong, visited the dump one Sunday, other children scattered. Filthy and hungry, Justus Uwayesu stayed put, and she asked him why.
"I want to go to school," he replied.
Well, he got his wish.

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Lindau, thành phố nhỏ nhắn và cổ kính ở cực nam nước Đức, nơi ngã ba biên giới tiếp giáp với Áo và Thụy Sĩ. Đều đặn từ năm 1951 đến nay, năm 2014 này là lần thứ 64 họ gặp nhau.
38 nhà khoa học đoạt giải Nobel về Y học cùng 600 nhà khoa học trẻ từ 80 nước trên thế giới đã đổ về Lindau để trao đổi, tọa đàm và thuyết trình về những ý tưởng hoặc thành tựu mới nhất trong lĩnh vực y học và y sinh học. Bằng cách thức gặp gỡ quốc tế đậm tính trao truyền này, tại Lindau sự giáo dục không chỉ dừng lại ở những điều học được trong sách vở, mà nó còn là niềm cảm hứng và những trải nghiệm quý báu của các nhà khoa học nhiều thế hệ mang đến cho nhau.

Aman Mittal, the director of LPU's international office, which provides support to foreign students, says the university, which has about 30,000 students, including 18,000 in residence, has been making a determined effort since 2010 to woo students from abroad as part of its effort to enrich its campus environment.

The university has participated in educational fairs, advertised in newspapers and set up a system of agents to spread the word, especially in Africa, about the opportunities it offers. "We always wanted to create diversity in the campus nationally, as well as internationally," Mittal says. "This diversity is going to bring a different educational culture to the university. The discussions in the classroom have gone to a very different level, with people adding a global perspective."

Researchers say that Indian students are choosing US institutions over those in the UK

Pakistan has a population of nearly 200 million people, of whom roughly one-fourth, or 52 million, are between the ages of 5 and 16. Pakistan's Constitution guarantees all of these children a free and compulsory education. While statistics for this age group are difficult to come by, the number of Pakistani children between 5 and 16 who are not attending school is close to 25 million; most of them are girls.
After all, it wasn't the Taliban that laced the school curriculum with material that suffocates numeracy and reason — and with them the prospects for pluralism in the country. It wasn't the Taliban that built schools without walls, without running water and without bathrooms. These are a legacy of a corrupt bureaucracy and patronage politics — during both democratic and military regimes.
And it wasn't the Taliban that hired thousands of unqualified teachers. That is a legacy of the en masse distribution of political favors by political parties.

But in recent years that certificate has lost its lustre: hundreds of thousands of Chinese families have voted with their tuition dollars to avoid the domestic university system and send their child overseas to study. The flight from Chinese universities has accelerated to the point where nearly one in three international students in the US is now Chinese (a total of 287,000). And education experts back home say the deficiencies of the local university system – from excessive bureaucracy to poor-quality teaching, from corruption to lack of academic freedom – are largely to blame.

MOSCOW — Russia has pulled out of a longstanding American high-school exchange program after a teenage Russian boy who befriended a gay couple sought asylum in the United States on the grounds that he faced persecution at home as a homosexual.
Pavel A. Astakhov, Russia's presidential ombudsman for children's rights, called it "an outrageous case" in announcing that Russia would no longer allow several hundred high-school students to spend an academic year in United States under the annual Future Leaders Exchange, or FLEX, program.

The General Theological Seminary in Manhattan, the nation's oldest Episcopal seminary, seemed to be regaining its footing after almost having to seek bankruptcy protection in 2010. It sold off some valuable real estate — its leafy campus in Chelsea is just steps from the High Line — and hired a new dean and president, the Rev. Kurt H. Dunkle, who promised to make the struggling institution a "joyful, thankful and useful" place.
A year after his arrival, however, the seminary has fallen into turmoil. Eight of its 10 full-time faculty members walked off the job on Friday to protest what they described in letters to the school's board of trustees as Mr. Dunkle's overly controlling management style, his habit of making vulgar and offensive remarks, and his frequent threats to demote or fire those who disagreed with him