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10 students with a disability talk about the difficulties of accessing inclusive education in the USA
“Being disabled, for many of us, means the end to any hopes of pursuing an education”, said Ashley Cowan D’Ambrosio, a Master of Arts student at the City University of New York with multiple disabilities, including attention deficit hyperactivity disorder … Continue reading
Posted in disability, Inclusion, Uncategorized
Tagged 2020 GEM Report, disabilities, disability, Inclusion, inclusive education, target 4.7
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Do you know a champion in inclusion and education?
Help us by nominating those who you believe deserve recognition The 2020 Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report due out next April will cover inclusion in education, addressing all those at risk of exclusion from education because of gender, sexual orientation, … Continue reading
Posted in disability, Inclusion, migrant, Uncategorized
Tagged #Target 4.5, 2020 GEM Report, disabilities, Inclusion, language, migrant
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Displaced children with disabilities face overlapping barriers
The 2019 Global Education Monitoring Report launched two weeks ago, focuses on migration and displacement. In discussing displaced people with disabilities, it begins with a premise established by the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities that having an … Continue reading
A teacher hero – making home-made desks for refugee children with disabilities
Rahman Hamdan is a teacher in an UNRWA school in Gaza who has made desks and chairs for children with disabilities. Often, physical barriers are enough for a child living with a disability to be turned away or to feel … Continue reading
Posted in Inclusion, Refugees and displaced people, Teachers, Uncategorized
Tagged 2020 GEM Report, disabilities, Inclusion, refugee education, refugees, teaching
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Radwan: “My school said ‘We don’t want wheelchairs any more’”
Almost every country around the world has ratified the right to education, but yet many schools either refuse to enrol children with disabilities or are ill-equipped to cope with their needs. A recent report by Human Rights Watch which looked … Continue reading
Posted in Inclusion, right to education, Uncategorized
Tagged #Target 4.5, 2020 GEM Report, disabilities, disability, Inclusion, right to education
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New statement on framing and measuring inequalities in education
By Aaron Benavot, Director of the EFA Global Monitoring Report, and Silvia Montoya, Director of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics. As reported in a previous series on this blog site, a two day workshop with 40 attendees was organized by … Continue reading
