This week in reviewing the Association for Childhood Education International (ACEI) I followed the General Links and Resources tab and chose the link for wiki progress which took me to the Child's Well Being Portal. This website had numerous links such as the Community Portal and Family Portal. It had many media reviews in various topics relating to children's health and well-being such as McDonald's and Burger King's Healthy Kid Meal Ads Confuse Children About Nutrition and The Link Between Family Structure and Poverty. The website included articles such as The State of the World's Children: 2014 Every Child Counts and Motherhood in Childhood: Facing the Challenges of Adolescent Parents. The website also had an events section which listed events coming up around the world that supports child well-being. Some events listed were World Health Day and Women's Issues in Transportation.
I do not receive a newsletter, however the ACEI website has the section for ACEI news and Global News. Under Global News there was an article titled Corruption in Education. The article discussed how corruption takes in place. Such as bribes within the educational system. With the average documented percentage of bribes within 27 countries being 15% with a high of 40%. The article also describes how 48% of people in Peru believe the education system is corrupt or highly corrupt. The article provided some ideas for solutions to such corruption such as developing codes of conduct.
This week I found the article Education for All: Global Monitoring Report. This report provided updates on each of the goals that was set within international community of various world leaders committing to education equality for all. The update shows the goal of reaching the goals and objectives by 2015 will not happen. The report described how 57 million children are not in school and at the current rate it will take till 2086 to achieve the goal of having poor girls in rural Africa in school. The report also describes this as a global learning crisis especially for poor countries.
As I continue to review this website and outside links I keep discovering the massive amount of information that is available about various topics in education around the world. The more I explore the more information I find, it seems to be no end to resources and information. I find this website to be very useful.
Rhonda,
ReplyDeleteI was shocked to read that there are still 57 million children not in school. It is a great reminder that though our education system in the U.S. still needs work and improvements, there are so many children out there without any access to education. There is so much to learn about early education programs around the world to help ensure all children have the chance to an education.
Jennie
Hi Rhonda
ReplyDeleteI also reviewed ACEI's website . I must say that i am truly amazed by the wealth of resources available on that website. I am very dumbfounded that with the plethora of research available and the necessity to invest in ECE there are so many children (57 million) with no access to schooling. This is very disheartening as well as the notion that it will probably take another 72 years to get poor girls in Africa in school. This means that educational opportunities are only for the affluent. This really highlights the issue of inequity in education.
Hi Rhonda,
ReplyDeleteI wandered on to this website as well. I can say that this website is a great one.