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SAGE (online only) Conducts research on educational quality and best practices for girls' educationand organizes workshops that bring together policy makers, practitioners, advocates and scholars to share knowledge and disseminatestrategies for advancing girls' education.

GEMS (online only) Dedicated to issues of monitoring and evaluation of girls' education. Aforum for the worldwide sharing of experiences, strategies, and results.

Assignment 2: active reading

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Assignment 2: Active Reading

• Write Focused Freewrites for any 3 different resources given on the previous page. (The length of each Focused Frewrite is 2-3paragraphs.)
• Please be sure to write the trigger phrase or sentence at the top of each Focused Freewrite in quotation marks and give the title of thearticle or source.

Assignment 3: connecting learning to a need

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Assignment 3:Connecting Learning to a Need

From the reading, your own knowledge, and possibly interviewing others in your local community, please answer the followingquestions:

• Describe three or four of the most important ingredients for girls education? Why?
• In the setting in which you find yourself, what is your greatest challenge?
• What are the national policies regarding girls' education? What are the best practices in your country? (You might want to include thecontributions of indigenous or community-based cultures or other non-formal structures that may not get the attention they deserve.)
• List 3 things you can do to enhance Girls' Education in your community. What resources do you have? What resources do you need? Whatthoughts come to mind as it relates to a possible project? (2-3 paragraphs)
• Send your work to your learning circle. Share feedback from your cohort. What new ideas are sparked for you in talking to your cohort?Describe them here.

When you're done with this assignment and your mentor says you're "Ready," continue onto Part Three of this course: Designing andImplementing Your Service Project.

Overview

Now it has come clear to me - that in our troubled world, so full of contradictions, it cannot be wisdom to assert the unique truth of onefaith over another...The wise person makes justice his guide, and learns from all. Perhaps, in this way, the door may be opened again,whose key has been lost. - Indian scholar, 16th century

In Conflict Mediation we are educating for a culture of peace.

Conflict Mediation is about ensuring that young people develop the social and emotional skills needed to reduce violenceand prejudice, form caring relationships, and build healthy lives. Conflict Mediation programs work to change school cultures so that theseskills are both modeled and taught as part of the "basics" in education.