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Education and Social Issues in Peru and Ancash-Updated

In response to one of our most well-read (albeit) outdated blog posts, I have taken this opportunity to update with excerpts from a recently well-written report from our University of Texas volunteer duo from the past summer.  

Pre-med students, Grace Gannon and Marc St Cyr, spent the summer helping and supporting Teach a Teacher projects and looking for opportunities for further projects in…

After spending almost two full weeks in Caraz, I am still amazed whenever I think of the beautiful sights, the great weather, the kindness of the people–but I am also saddened when I think of the education that children in this region receive.

Last Wednesday, an eleven-year old girl asked me for help with her homework, which was to write a full page describing a famous person–in English. The…

Why Should I Support Teach a Teacher Nonprofit ?

                                                                                                                                       By H Mac Wooten As with any organization whether it is a for-profit or nonprofit, before you offer support, you should ask questions (of yourself and most certainly about the organization).

1. How is the organization structured?  Teach a Teacher is a 501(c)…

Poverty’s affect on Education and Where Are My Car Keys? Part II

                                                                                                                                       By H Mac Wooten A nation’s future is only as good as its children. Educating children gives the next generation the tools to fight poverty. Educating girls, has a ‘multiplier effect’. Educated girls are more likely to marry later and have fewer children, who in…

Poverty’s Affect on Education and Where Are My Car Keys? Part I

                                                                                                                                       By H Mac Wooten

Most everyone agrees that the current state of education has problems, everywhere…. IF they are as intelligent and you and me, correct?  Well, what do we Fix First?  Not all children wear size 10 shoes and no one answer is the correct answer to th…

A Picture and a Bag of Rice – Un Dibujo y Una Bolsa de Arroz

A Picture and a Bag of Rice

by Laura Landstrom, Teach a Teacher Volunteer June 2014

My usual commute to work involves gazing out a metro window into blackness or looking out a car window at bumper to bumper DC traffic.  And so as I peered out the bus window at the immense desert coastline and the rolling mountains of the Cordillera Blanca on my initial  ride from Lima into the Ancash region, it…

Expectations without Education, Nonexistent

Quality Education Creates Expectations for the Poor and the Overall Economy

Outside Lima Peru

by H Mac Wooten On a recent trip to Lima last week on the day bus, I  again took note of the poverty and living conditions of many here. The population of Peru is approximately 31 million with about 1/3 of the population living in Lima (South Americas 5th largest city). About 2 hours from Lima as we…

Why did or didn’t Chicken Little (Pollito Chiquito) Cross the Road?

                                                                                                     By Kelly Dwyer  Exec. Director Teach a Teacher Over the past two weeks Teach a Teacherhas made the strides and the kind of sense that we were hoping to achieve from the program.  Laura Landstrom, originally educated at the University of Texas, Austin and current teacher at the District of…

After a Day of Renewal, un Accion de Gracias (a Thanks Giving)

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  I continue to be a cheerleader from afar of those voices of courage, battling the so-called Reform Movement in education.  A big resounding thank you to G.F. Brandenburg, Diane Ravitch and Mercedes Schneider

Evolving and Devolving

The Education and Economies’ of North and South Americas’ Growing Likenesses                      …

Part III of No More --The Best Thing I Ever Did as a Teacher

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Teaching... no more Part II

I realize I am a tad bit late to the table  for participating in the Michelle Rhee debate, but that…

Teaching For America(’s Corporate Agenda, no more!)

Ok TEACHERS Take Notice !

Teach a Teacher is proud to be a member of a great Organization … Council for…

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