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It’s not common, in today’s employment climate, to hear of people walking away from job security. Three Brooklyn public school teachers have done just that. In an effort to propel the education reform movement, they have launched The Odyssey Initiative (OI), a multi-year project with three goals: To find what is working in schools around the country, to share those findings with the public, and to use this rich knowledge to create a new school.

It is a crime to disagree with our teachers in the class. We should not ask questions that can make a teacher annoyed. We learned to make presentations which have less content and more animations. Last minute preparations matter in an examination than learning the concepts-These are some of the teachings and common perception which is paralyzing today’s education system and questioning the role of teachers in an educational institution. Focusing on these issues happening in the current scenario, Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata organized a workshop today for the teachers on the topic “Changing role of teachers” sponsored by TEQIP Phase-II and was addressed by Dr. Harish Chaudhary, Assistant Professor, Department of Management Studies, IIT Delhi. Dr. Chaudhary has a broad experience in education management and is a motivational speaker for today’s teachers in educational institutions. He had addressed in many other workshops conducted by various educational institutions from schools to universities across the globe.

Aiden Ayala, of Marion High School, rappels down a 45-foot tower at Camp Atterbury Joint Maneuver Training Center during the Indiana Public Schools Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps Cadet Leadership Challenge at Camp Atterbury Joint Maneuver Training Center July 10. Soldiers from the Indiana Army National Guard's 38th Infantry Division serve as rappel masters and in other roles and functions during the camp.

The city of Port Harcourt was chosen “on account of the quality of its programme, in particular its focus on youth and the impact it will have on improving Nigeria’s culture of books, reading, writing and publishing to improve literacy rates,” according to the Selection Committee.

Young Congolese boys during a lesson at the Mugosi Primary School, in the town of Kitschoro, in the north eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

A member of the Arizona National Guard's Civil Operations Team reaches out to help a student from Mark T. Atkinson Middle School out of the water after sliding down a slide rock during outdoor activities at the Freedom Academy. The event hosts a variety of activities based on drug awareness and instills the ability to make positive life choices.

Young people attend Green Jobs: A Chance for Youth event at Rio+20 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazi.

A Pakistani woman doctor is under investigation for her alleged involvement in poisoning dozens of school students over the past three weeks in Takhar province of Afghanistan, an official has said.