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Murder Victim's Blog Post Leads Police to Killer, Inspires New Film

Murder victim's blog post leads police to killer, inspires new film

(From left) Rita Achiro, Ehklas Ahmed and Judith Abdalla sing in the Pihcintu Multicultural Children's Chorus.

Refugee Girls' Chorus Sings Message of Hope

Group's 30 members come from 14 countries

A screen grab of zoyaamirin.com, a site for sex education in Indonesia.

Online Tool Teaches Indonesians Sex Education

Health officials link fast-growing HIV transmission rate in world's most populous Muslim nation to lack of basic knowledge

Map of Australia

Australian Universities Cut Jobs As Foreign Student Enrollment Dips

Many blame the high Australian dollar, increased global competition from the US and Britain for the dropping foreign enrollment

Writing Program Supplements US Public Education

Program has been helping students across the United States become better writers by tapping into their creativity

Students play an online game called Budget Hero.

Students Debate US Budget Through Online Game

Game was developed in 2008 and students can embrace a set of values to motivate their choices

Students at Thiabakh elementary school sit in the classroom at Ndioum refugee camp in Ndioum, Senegal, November 2011.

UN Helps Refugee Children Stay in School in Senegal

UN agency spends bit more than 15% of $1.4 million annual budget on education, scholarships, rehabilitation projects, school materials

Treats baked by trainees at Sunflower Bakery, which helps people with learning disabilities find jobs in the baking industry.

Bakery Cooks Up a Sweet Future

Trains special needs people for food industry jobs

Teacher Fred Tenyke discusses science with the class at Georgian Forest Elementary school as retired engineer Dave Weiss, who helps apply his experience to help, looks on, in Silver Spring, Maryland, November 2011.

Scientists Help US Science Teachers in the Classroom

Trend can help place more emphasis on science in American schools, get students up to par with peers in other countries.

Photo of student on mother's prayer beads as she prays for daughter's success in college entrance examinations, Seoul, Nov. 8, 2011.

For South Korean Youth, an Education Crossroads

Although Korean students are among the highest scorers on international standardized tests, some say there is a downside

Two-year-old Arfaisal Marsaleh, a stateless child, holds on to his mother in a slum village in Kinarut, in Malaysia's Sabah state on the Borneo island (file photo).

Plantation Schools Offer Hope for Malaysia's Stateless Children

UNICEF project makes students fluent in their native language so they can continue education in Indonesia rather than working in fields

Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan (file photo)

Arrests of Academics in Turkey Cause Concerns

Well-known university professor Busra Ersanli arrested under country's anti-terror laws

Administrators at Tidewater Community College in Virginia have launched a program to help prevent a tuition-loan crisis at their school, where students are shown working on computers in the college library, Norfolk, Virginia, November 2011.

Virginia College Proactively Manages Student Loan Debt

Administrators at Tidewater Community College launch program to help prevent tuition-loan crisis at their school

A Malaysian mother picks her daughter up from a pre-school after it was closed in Kuching, the capital of Malaysia's Borneo state of Sarawak. (File Photo)

Pilot Program Teaches Sarawak Indigenous Children in Mother Tongue

UNESCO is helping pre-schoolers on island of Borneo get education in their own language

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