India Development Coalition of America--IDCA--Education

You may like to read the UNESCO 2010 Global Monitoring Report of Education For All Campaign under MDG at the following links. Summary 42 pages http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001865/186525E.pdf Full Report 525 Pages http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001866/186606E.pdf It will be nice to hear your thoughts on this especially as the part of the report addressed to India's education. What can we learn and do it from this report and transform education in India to eradicate Poverty and Mitigate Climate Change?

I am pleased to share the following link on an education Program that was broadcast last September. You will find it informative and inspiring to do something to transform education in India to held eradicate poverty in India and beyond. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/time-for-school-series/full-episode-back-to-school/272/ Please review it and share with others who may be inspired to do something as well wherever they come from or anywhere else they have connections. Please send your thoughts after you have chanced to review the videos and interviews.

Holistic Education Column -- Ron Miller-- Paths of Learning The End of Schooling? Modern culture has entered an historic phase of transition in which our industrial-age, reductionistic worldview is being replaced by one that is more holistic, ecological, and open to the fundamental mystery of the cosmos. In recent months, I have noticed increasing awareness that this is indeed happening; a growing number of authors and filmmakers are proclaiming what they perceive to be the imminent end of established institutions and cultural assumptions: They tell us about the end of dogmatic faith, the end of an economy based on cheap energy, the end of empire, the end of America, and even the end of civilization. (For an especially provocative and comprehensive overview of this analysis, I highly recommend Timothy S. Bennett’s documentary “What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire”--see www.whatawaytogomovie.com/ .) As most of us now recognize, we are facing a global crisis