The entirety of the Danish homeland has been translated into bricks in the virtual world of Minecraft with a view to enhanced education. The model has been created by people from the Danish mapping arm of the government by putting about 4000 billion bricks together within the popular videogame. It takes up about 1TB (1000 GigaBytes). It sports a navigation system and has been created from publicly... 

Thousands of students demonstrate in Madrid to protest against Spanish government’s spending cuts in the education system, February 6, 2013. Thousands of students and teachers have demonstrated in the Spanish capital Madrid to protest against the government’s budget cuts in the education sector. Carrying flags and banners that read “Our education will not pay your debt,” the demonstrators... 

Students clash with riot police during a demonstration in downtown Rome on October 5, 2012 against deep cuts in the education budget. Thousands of people have taken to the streets of Italy to protest against the government’s financial policies. The protesters, who were mainly students, staged demonstrations across Italy on Saturday to express their opposition to Prime Minister Mario Monti’s austerity... 

Thirty-six universities in Iran have announced that 77 courses in their curriculum will be “single-sex,” prompting an outcry at home and worldwide over women’s rights in the Islamic state. ­The subjects now only available for men include accounting, engineering, pure chemistry, English literature and translation, hotel management, and many others, Iranian news website Rooz Online reports. For... 

Chile's President Sebastian Pinera Chilean police have clashed with over 50,000 students who have taken to the streets of the capital Santiago to protest against the education policies of President Sebastian Pinera’s government. Tuesday saw tens of thousands of people in the streets demanding a reform in the education policy of the government which requires the students to pay high fees,... 

Report Examines How Immigration Has Changed the Golden State. In 1970, nine percent of California’s population was comprised of immigrants; by 2008 it was 27 percent. A new report from the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) finds that as a result of immigration, California now has the least-educated labor force of any state. Historically, California was not a state with a disproportionately... 

Germany and Sweden do not permit home schooling. A German couple has sought asylum in the US to be able to home school their children. Uwe Romeike and his wife Hannelore work with their children at home in Morristown, Tenn., in this March 13, 2009, photo. The couple have moved into a modest duplex home while they seek political asylum because they say they were persecuted for their religious beliefs... 

America, The Land of Opportunity? Not Anymore... Is America the “land of opportunity”? Not so much. A new report from the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) finds that social mobility between generations is dramatically lower in the U.S. than in many other developed countries. So if you want your children to climb the socioeconomic ladder higher than you did,... 

Is this the future of Science Labs in America? The proposal would trade labs seen as benefiting white students for resources to help struggling students. Berkeley High School is considering a controversial proposal to eliminate science labs and the five science teachers who teach them to free up more resources to help struggling students. The proposal to put the science-lab cuts on the table was approved... 

“Migration of illiterates increases 20%” a study by the National Institute of Educational Evaluation (”INEE”) (of Mexico) reveals that the number of illiterate youths – from 15 to 29 years of age – who emigrate to the United States in search of better living opportunities increased by 20 percent. It shows that this portion of the population – which did not finish basic education...