DAKAR, Senegal — Thiany Dior usually rises before dawn, tiptoeing carefully as she leaves the cramped dormitory room she shares with a half-dozen other women. It was built for two. In the vast ...

Walk down into Aminata Sy’s West Philadelphia basement, and you’ll see color splashed on the walls. There are self-portraits and large, red suns drawn in crayon, as well as maps of Africa highlighting ...

Foundational learning comprises basic literacy, numeracy and transferable skills such as social and emotional skills, critical thinking and problem-solving. These skills are the bedrock and building ...

HUNTINGTON — Huntington Middle School students are busy doing more than book learning this year. They are helping students in Africa. Sixth-grade language arts and world culture students have been ...

Millions of African children are left behind, their right to education unfulfilled – it is about education systems failing to ensure that children acquire foundational skills. The reality is sobering.

The month of February should not be the end of the learning process for the year, but rather the beginning of a school year ...

The thought of teaching about Africa can be overwhelming to teachers: so many countries, cultures, and challenges it’s difficult to know where to begin. Today’s authors work at Boston University’s ...

School-age children across Africa often don’t have access to a formal education. They may live in remote rural areas or in violence-plagued regions too dangerous for teachers to visit. Others can’t ...

LAKE WORTH BEACH, Fla. — Art can take many forms but for one dance group in Lake Worth Beach, they're teaching their members and the community all about African culture through the beat of drums and ...

Servaas van der Berg receives funding from the Millennium Trust, the National Research Foundation, the Allan & Gill Gray Philanthropies and the MS Dell Foundation. Chris van Wyk receives funding from ...