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While reading Financial Solutions for Sending and Keeping Children in School, I realized that it is relevant to my current professional development because it represents a sustained vision for the early childhood field and more specifically for the programs that prepare children for future success. The Article speaks about strategies to bring targeted financial services into the field of education. Opportunity international's goal is to impact the education of 2 million children in marginalized countries. The organization offers school improvement loans which made me think, if the organization is offering school loans to low-quality schools in order to improve the quality of education, how the school will pay back the money. The insight I gained is that the Early Childhood Education is a major issue in other countries and it sounds as though organizations are going to making major investments in Early Childhood Education. When understanding how economists, neurosciences, or politicians support the early childhood field the information I gather was that this organization does realize that it takes resources to fund such a huge project and use several unique strategies to fund and preserve funding.   New insights about issues and trends in the early childhood field I gained from exploring the website or e-newsletter, is that poverty and low quality education go hand in hand if we can invest in developing better quality schools, give our children an opportunity to rise against poverty.

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http://issuu.com/opportunity/docs/financial-solutions-for-sending-and_0b7928fa2f90f8

Getting to Know international contacts

Bangui, Central Africa Republic

 

 

Is an area where one child out of five dies before reaching the age of five. Children's health and education is often neglected because families are forced to work long hours looking for diamonds. Bangui has the lowest school enrollment rate, while food prices continue to rise. Basic need and this poor children are suffering, often going without eating for more than 24 hours. After researching Bangui a little further I found out that there is a great amount of violence there, mainly children being targeted, due families faith. 





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American School Board Journal: http://www.asbj.com/TopicsArchive/ImmigrationandDiversity/Promoting-Diversity-in-Your-Schools.html

Title of Article Promoting Diversity in your School

This article caught my eye because all week we have been focusing on the importance of diversity and demographics. This article talks about what diversity is and why It should be promoted in our school. The articles definition of Diversity is a multidimensional, broadly inclusive concept that acknowledges and embraces the richness of human differences. It is vital that a school board define diversity with sufficient clarity, given the inherent ambiguity of the term and the frequently ill-informed debates that surround it.  Community involvement is key in this article stating "No serious discussion of diversity in our public schools can or should take place without community involvement. Practices at the school complement and reinforce the policy through curricular and extracurricular offerings and student services that acknowledge and celebrate student differences. steps to ensure that it is legally sustainable:

• Connect the use of race to educational goals, not just district demographics (which could result in an impermissible quota system).
• Review social science research that examines the interplay between racial diversity and academic achievement or other educational benefits, and apply that research to the district’s context.
• Clearly articulate how and when race is employed to assign students. Avoid using blunt categories that ignore important racial and ethnic nuances within a student population, reflecting “a limited notion of diversity” (e.g., “white” and “nonwhite”).
• Ensure the use of race or ethnicity in student assignment is necessary to realize a discernable effect on student assignment.
• Consider and, where appropriate, try race-neutral alternatives first