education reform

Silicon Valley’s top executives converged at the White House on September 4, 2025, to publicly endorse the First Lady’s AI education initiative — a high-profile meeting that fused corporate pledges, government policy ambitions, and the politics of technology into a single, consequential moment...

Malaysia’s uneasy relationship with English is shifting from an academic inconvenience into a measurable economic and career liability for many recent graduates, and a new column by a UTHM linguist lays out why classroom practice often fails to translate into workplace communication — and what...

In recent years, Indonesia’s education landscape has witnessed a fiery debate surrounding the concept of “favorite schools,” a phrase on everyone’s lips yet never enshrined in the country’s official education policy. These institutions—lauded by some and reviled by others—are magnets for...

Seventy-eight years after independence, Indonesia stands at a pivotal crossroads: the nation’s founding vision—to cultivate an intelligent, enlightened populace as the foundation of prosperity—remains stubbornly unfulfilled. For millions of Indonesian citizens, the promise of independence...

At the heart of innovative education reform in Latin America, a remarkable story is unfolding in metropolitan Lima, Peru. Teachers, long on the front lines of educational transformation, are now leveraging the power of artificial intelligence to reshape student experiences and their teaching...

At the Microsoft Build 2025 conference, CEO Satya Nadella unveiled a groundbreaking initiative aimed at transforming education in Peru through the integration of Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat. This collaboration, in partnership with the World Bank and the education authorities of metropolitan Lima...

English is not the villain some make it out to be, and history has a habit of mocking those who attempt to cast it in that role. In Malaysia, where the linguistic landscape is as diverse as a bustling Penang food court at lunchtime, debates over the place of English have flared up again—notably...

Can social media make a real difference for a cause? It's a challenge taken on by Marc Ecko and his Unlimited Justice, a campaign to fight corporal punishment in U.S. schools. More than just an isolated campaign, it's an example of how the Internet is changing modern activism. Online...