Fiona* never dreamt that God would one day restore her cultural identity by bringing her to OM Hong Kong to serve.

Lincoln and Manna from Hong Kong are two of the four candidates to participate in OM EAP’s first Timothy Trek training programme this year.

As OM Hong Kong celebrates 25 years, leader Cheuk-chung Lau reflects on the past 19 years and wonders who the next “Joshua” will be.

OM Australia shares about mission opportunities at Australia’s leading three-day music festival in Toowoomba, Queensland, over Easter.

JustMoney.co.za marketing manager Shafeeka Anthony lists the implications to consider before withdrawing savings or investments.

Simon Dippenaar, founder and managing partner at Simon Dippenaar & Associates, looks at the financial consequences of divorce and what you should consider.

The South African Association of Treasury Advisors highlights the importance of dealing only with an authorised financial services provider when making any investment.

Shares in Woolworths surged more than 4% on Monday after an update showed its blue-chip food business continuing its strong growth trajectory and its fashion, beauty and home business delivering improving sales metrics.

One can easily and quickly activate multiple eSIMs, free of charge, by uploading false RICA validation information to me&you mobile’s website.

One week before Ramadan, 17 participants share God’s love with hundreds of Arab tourists in Zell am See, Austria.

Mercy Teams International (MTI) strives to see local workers in each ministry field trained and equipped as leaders. MTI Cambodia is one example.

When making formal statements, school and district leaders should call out racist patterns and commit to dismantling White supremacy, advise Dorinda J. Carter Andrews and Shaun R. Harper.

Education Week spoke to chief equity officers and superintendents for ideas on promoting more equitable education practices in school districts. Here’s what they shared.

In Arctic Russia, reindeer are the Nenets' life. Living among these people, ES longs for the Nenets to know Jesus, the true source of life.

The change to the Title II program will benefit Southern states, while Michigan, New York, and Pennsylvania, among others, will see their allocations shrink.

On Thursday, Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) introduced legislation that would establish a national standard for youth-concussion treatment and prevention.

Education Week's Andrew Ujifusa hashes out the details of the education budget with Prince George's County, Md., Schools CEO Kevin Maxwell.

The version of the tax bill passed by the Republican-led Senate would double the amount teachers can deduct for classroom supplies.

While President Donald Trump signed executive orders this week that could have widespread impact on immigrant communities, many in K-12 education await word on his decision on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.

A report suggests that the $2.5 billion program should focus more on continuous improvement than on scattershot activities.

While the Trump administration proposal would not strip student eligibility for Head Start, the federal school lunch program, or the Individual with Disabilities Education Act, it could still affect millions of school-aged children who live with immigrant parents.

Congress grilled the CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google about "pandemic profiteering," anti-competitive practices, and the flow of misinformation about COVID-19.

The largest experiment to date comparing commercial math curricula gives a slight edge to two popular programs.

New sheets outlines how districts can support English-learner students, but concedes that "schools may not be able to provide all services in the same manner they are typically provided."

In the wake of the 'Janus' Supreme Court case, teachers' unions are facing more than a dozen legal challenges backed by right-leaning groups that could further dampen their membership numbers and finances.

The first season of the Netflix political potboiler was rich with education-policy plotlines, and we're hoping for more of the same.

More than 40 states are considering postsecondary and career readiness in school performance in some way in their Every Student Succeeds Act plans.

Dig into what two leading Democratic presidential candidates have to say in their platforms about charter schools with Education Week's detailed analysis.

A group of Texas high school cheerleaders filed a petition with the state Supreme Court over an ongoing dispute about the display of banners with religious messages at high school football games.

The parents of a 16-year-old who died last fall from football-related brain trauma are suing the New York school districts he played for and the medical responders who tended to him the night he sustained his fatal injury.

The battle stems from Varsity Brands' efforts to gain copyright protection for the design of stripes, chevrons, zigzags, and color blocks that are on its uniforms.

Since June 2020 Education Week has tracked if & when the over 200 schools named after men with ties to the Confederacy changed their names.

OM Angola sets out to change the future of the country’s youth.

A recent study found that one organization's instructional-leadership professional development had no impact. Could it be because the topic of instructional leadership needs to be expanded?

Dig into what two leading Democratic presidential candidates have to say in their platforms about charter schools with Education Week's detailed analysis.

With results of the 2020 presidential election undetermined as of EdWeek Update’s deadline, continue following edweek.org and the Politics K-12 blog for the latest updates and analysis.

Harvard's Richard Elmore has pointed out the "catastrophe" that is educational leadership preparation. We can all look to practice communities like Peloton to develop our skills, practice, and mindsets to help remedy that.

All Classroom Q&A posts sharing advice on Facing Gender Challenges in Education (from the past nine years!) are described and linked to in this compilation post.

A student-centered approach to teaching mathematics enables students to develop conceptual understanding and to grow as confident mathematicians.

When the brain experiences an injury, it can be difficult to definitively diagnose a concussion as the trauma is often limited to inside the skull and cannot be accurately assessed, according Reuben Kraft, a professor of mechanical engineering at Penn State. Kraft's research team is using computational methods and tools — such as custom mouthguard sensors — to model and predict injury in the human brain. 

40 groups will band together to push principles for "modernizing and elevating" teaching, but many of the groups have contrasting agendas.

First and second-year medical students at the Penn State College of Medicine participated in a simulated rope rescue of an injured climber.

Penn State announced the recipients of the inaugural Commonwealth Campus Undergraduate Community-Engaged Research Awards, a new program designed for faculty who specifically support undergraduate student participation in research that aims to improve community well-being.

Penn State Hazleton Associate Professor Joseph Ranalli developed a method to identify mislabeled equipment in solar plants by analyzing cloud motion, significantly reducing labor and costs for a large energy provider and enriching the educational experience for his engineering students by demonstrating real-world applications of data analysis. His collaboration with Principal Research Engineer Will Hobbs from Southern Co. has resulted in the publication of two articles and open-source software. 

Penn State World Campus is hosting a virtual leadership summit this month and invites students from across the University to attend.

Tencent Holdings and Ubisoft Entertainment SA's founding Guillemot family are considering options, including a potential buyout of the French video game developer, after it lost more than half its market value this year, according to people familiar with the matter.

The rand fell, while the dollar surged and bitcoin hit a record high Wednesday while most US equity markets advanced as traders bet on a victory for Donald Trump as results for the US presidential election rolled in.

In a case involving a transgender track athlete, the Trump administration says female transgender athletes are seeking "special treatment" to compete in girls' or women's sports.

The judge said the law likely discriminates on the basis of transgender status in violation of the equal-protection clause of the U.S. Constitution.