Is Gen-Z Ditching College to Pioneer Alternative Learning While Disrupting Higher Education?
Gen Z is paving a new path in learning, workforce, consumerism, and politics – and changing our world.
Nation’s Education Report Card Shows Dismal Math and Reading Scores
Why are U.S. students falling behind when it comes to math and reading proficiency?
Does the world protest too much?
As protests and unrest plagues every region of our world, nearly seven million followers of the relatively unknown but seemingly peaceful Bahá’í Faith worldwide celebrated a bicentenary marking the “Herald of a new Dawn.” As the youngest of independent monotheistic religions, with followers in 200 countries and territories, the multi-ethnic, multi-cultural bicentenary celebrated the Faith’s “Twin Luminaries” – the Báb and Bahá’u’lláh.” The celebrations called for oneness: humanity as one...
‘Democracy is in Peril,’ warns influential Forum 2000 Conference in Prague
In 1989 the Soviet Bloc countries seized Mikhail Gorbachev’s glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring) policies to put an end to the Soviet Union, maiming its tentacles across the communist Eastern Europe. This resuscitated democracy hopes and promises of fair, free elections as protestors pushed authoritarian leaders out. The Berlin Wall came down. The Solidarity won in Poland. Opposition leader, Vaclav Havel, was elected president of Czechoslovakia. Pro-democracy protestors filled...
2020 Centennial Anniversary of Women’s Rights to Vote Coincides With Major Celebrations of Women’s Initiatives
The year 2020 marks global anniversaries of landmark policies and initiatives related to women’s rights. The 100th anniversary of the passing of the 19th Amendment, guaranteeing and protecting women’s constitutional right to vote will also mark the 25th anniversary of the adoption of the September 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. It is also the 5th anniversary of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDG), the 20th anniversary of the 1325 Resolution on Women, Peace and...