His sherry cabinet in Harvard Yard long since turned over to another president, his diplomat’s striped pants put into mothballs, the quiet New Englander embarked on a new career—unofficial Inspector ...

Seated outside her home in Makoko, a low-income community in Lagos, Nigeria's bustling megacity, Margaret Okpoe is tapping away on her new tablet. The 14-year-old is trying to connect to a virtual ...

Young graduates from various parts of the country have opted to offer assistance in realizing quality education in informal settlement areas. This is in line with the United Nations Development ...

In the national headquarters of the American Federation of Teachers in Chicago, President Jerome Davis last week tacked up a map of U. S. “intellectual slums.” The Federation had just finished a ...

In Bhubaneswar's slums, Nibedita Lenka, known as Yashoda Maa, champions Odia language learning for underprivileged children.

Every three years, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) conducts its Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). PISA is a set of tests that measures ...

After overcoming poverty and academic failure herself, Aarti Naik founded Sakhi for Girls Education, helping thousands of ...

For nearly two decades, Manju’s open-air school was the starting point of education for hundreds of children in the area.

The standard policy response to slums has never worked. It's time to think about how to integrate slum residents into the ...