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Nearly 1,400 schools in the Netherlands have joined forces to create their own textbook publisher, promising to cut costs by more than half while reducing waste. The cooperative already represents 650,000 students and is challenging publishers who control 80% of the market.
Rouble Nagi turned Mumbai slum walls into living textbooks and won the world's top teaching prize. Her art-based learning centers have reached thousands of first-generation learners across India.
After two decades of searching, researchers have discovered exactly how our bodies complete a crucial step in digestion that textbooks couldn't explain. The breakthrough reveals a never-before-seen transport system that could reshape our understanding of metabolism and liver health.
Seven Ghanaian junior high schools will receive computer labs and hands-on tech training through a new partnership aimed at closing the digital divide. Over 4,000 students will gain practical ICT skills that textbooks alone can't teach.
Shrey and Jyoti Rawat left their city jobs to transform how children learn in remote Uttarakhand villages, using forests, theatre, and hands-on experiments instead of traditional textbooks. Their progressive school model is giving mountain children confidence, curiosity, and new dreams for their futures.
A former Kalamazoo Central football player is launching a scholarship to cover what free tuition can't—housing, textbooks, and other college essentials. The Weekley Legacy Scholarship will support 10 students starting in 2026.
Over 300 primary schools in Nigeria's Abia North district are receiving free uniforms, part of a multi-year effort to give students dignity and better learning conditions. The initiative adds to earlier donations of desks, textbooks, and renovated classrooms across five local government areas.
The Universal Basic Education Commission just equipped public schools across Benue State with smart boards, computers, and thousands of textbooks to improve learning for Nigerian children. The state government pledged to ensure every donated resource reaches classrooms where it's needed most.
Vedarth doesn't attend traditional school, but at nine years old he's already read 100 books, builds robots, runs cupcake stalls, and invests his savings through SIPs. His mother Vrishuti chose unschooling to let curiosity guide his education instead of textbooks.