Southeast Michigan faces serious challenges. A growing number of families are struggling, and they are being forced to turn for help to agencies trying to serve more people with dwindling resources. Your United Way is responding with the Agenda for Change – an aggressive new plan to equip metro Detroiters with the tools and resources [...]
Title: The Economic Case for Investing in Early Childhood Education Speaker: Barbara Snyder, James Heckman Date: March 18, 2010 Location: Ford Auditorium, Case Western Reserve University Campus, Cleveland, Ohio
Discussion by Mr. Walter Ojara of the issues facing the Early Childhood Development Program in Awach IDP Camp. The day after this video was shot, Unicef cancelled the Salvation Army contract to complete these ECD Centers in IDP Camps in Gulu District. All support was withdrawn just as the program began to take root.
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JACMEL, Haiti, 6 April 2010 When the earthquake shook the mountains outside this port city in southern Haiti on 12 January, rural schools throughout the area were destroyed or damaged. Not only were classes cancelled for the short term, but looking ahead, parents were afraid to send their children back into damaged classrooms that they [...]
Rep. Dale Kildee, chair of the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education, delivers his opening statement at a hearing regarding improving early childhood development policies and practices on March 19, 2009.
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