Meg Oxley

Let your faith be bigger than your fears!

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@spiotta_nicole With 250 different languages they also struggle with the tribal membership and tribal tradition playing a role in education and fear of domination.

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Approximately there are 290 million people in Nigeria of schooling age. Of this number the University level can hold only about 600,000 students about 54,000 students seek higher education in another country. #mu511

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@Dan_Weaver_17 Muslims who follow Islam in the North and Christians who are mostly Catholic and Protestant in the South. It interesting to see such a split since religions are so mixed in society here in the US. #mu511

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There is considerable rivalry between tribal & language groups who fear domination by rival groups. To maintain an ethnic and linguistic identity, it is important for these groups that schools do what the oral tradition did in the past. pg 424 #mu511

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@Dan_Weaver_17 "If a candidate died during the exam, the test officials would roll his body in a mat and throw it over the test compound wall, rather than allowing relatives to come into the examination zone to claim it." OMG that's crazy, how secret are these tests?! #mu511

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@xajenkin Could you imagine sending your 3,4 or 5 year old away to a boarding school? You pretty much miss out on them going up. #MU511

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630 Private Universities in 2012! #MU511

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WOW! this compares to the US’s 3.2 million full-time teachers and 60 million students enrolled. #MU511

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@DebHarnish Do you think the illiteracy rate has to do with the amount of different languages that are spoke within India?

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@MoSauder79 I couldn't imagine being a teacher and having to move from classroom to classroom or be the student stuck with the same people all day!

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30% of Children in India are uneducated mostly due to 1)Shortage of money 2)Shortage of schooling facilities and 3)Uneducated parents #MU511

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15 major languages and almost 700 minor languages and dialects are spoken in India. WOW! pg 393 #MU511

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@kwduncan3 The fact that the school day is already 7 hrs can you imagine going to Juku classes for another 5 & 1/2 hrs then going home to do homework.

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@xajenkin The fact that here in the US we never had to worry about how we were getting to school what would we do if we were in her situation. #MU511

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Some interesting facts about Japanese Education. https://t.co/wZG5O7sQDw #MU511

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"All students are expected to keep up with the class as a whole and are generally promoted with their age group." pg 348 #MU511

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@dgjansen133 @CSeachristMU I do see how standardized tests are necessary, I just wish that teachers taught how they wanted to rather than "teaching to the test" #MU511

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@DebHarnish This is very true. It could also do with the town location with the percent of dropouts. #MU511

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@heatherjean1116 Its crazy to read that the dropout rate is this high! I just couldn't believe it! #MU511

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@MalloryAustinMU This is very interesting to read. I couldn't imagine having a classroom with potentially multiple different grade levels in it. #MU511