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Germany: Innovative day of action draws attention to education

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200,000 Syrian refugee children to get free schooling in Lebanon

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Tasnim points to the text mentioning she graduated with honors on her certificate.

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World Teachers’ Day: Empowering teachers, building sustainable societies

On 5 October, World Teachers’ Day, Education International, with its affiliates and partners worldwide, will highlight the new 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals, and the crucial role teachers will play in ensuring it is implemented.

“Every year on World Teachers’ Day, we celebrate educators and the central role they play in providing children everywhere with a quality education,” says a Joint Message on the occasion of the World Teachers’ Day (WTD) signed by UNESCO, the International Labour Organisation (ILO), UNICEF, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and Education International (EI).

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More shooting horror on a US college campus

A young lone gunman killed nine people at an American college - Umpqua Community College in Roseburg on Thursday morning.

He is reported to have ordered students to stand up and state their religion before shooting. The suspect, who has been named in reports as 26-year-old Chris Harper-Mercer, died in a subsequent exchange of gunfire with police in Oregon. Three handguns and a "long gun" belonging to the attacker have been recovered from the scene.

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Secondhand Smoke Linked to Behavior Issues in Kids

Risk is greatest among children exposed both in the womb and at a young age, study suggests.

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Kenya: Teachers’ pay rise waits on Court of Appeal decision

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Safer learning for more than 2 million children caught in Syrian conflict

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A boy in first grade, looks through the new school kit he received in his classroom in Damascus.

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Iraqi Schools Face a Desk Deficit

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At the al-Asil elementary school in Baghdad's Mansour neighbourhood, internally displaced Iraqi children attend class after having missed school for over a year due to violence.

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Teacher shortage threatens development

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Education community gathers to tackle global goals together

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Angelo Gavrielatos, EI Project Director for the Global Response to the Privatisation and Globalisation in and of Education, speaks in NY