The Gandhara Scroll, a manuscript dating back to around the first century Before Christ (B.C.), offers insight into early Buddhist history.

“This is a unique item because it is very old compared to similar manuscripts and, as such, it does bring us, historically speaking, relatively close to the lifetime of the Buddha,” says Jonathan Loar, reference librarian in the Asian Division at the LoC.

The scroll is available for viewing at loc.gov/item/2018305008.

​Asian Division of Library of Congress. Image credit: Twitter handle of Carla Hayden

A list of the Best Websites for Teaching & Learning Every year, is released by the AASL to honor creativity websites which enhance learning and development for educators.

NatGeoEd.org offers classroom resources, student programming, and online courses and professional development opportunities for educators. 

The Resource Library provides free standards-aligned resources, including photographs, articles, classroom activities, videos, and maps. The carefully curated content covers an array of topics beyond geography. Educators can find content by grade level on biology, art, music, storytelling, math, and more. ​ 

Some of the most popular resources from the past school year are: ​Forces of Nature (grades 2-12, higher ed), an interactive activity for a wide variety of ages that helps students understand the science behind earthquakes, volcanoes, tornadoes, and hurricanes;  Ancient Mesopotamia 101 (grades 5-12, higher ed), an engaging video to teach students about ancient Mesopotamia!; Great Pacific Garbage Patch (grades 4-12, higher ed), a comprehensive resource for teaching students about how litter affects our oceans; The Road to the Afterlife (grades 5-8), an infographic to teach students about mummification and can be used in a variety of classes including social studies, science, or anthropology.

DEI is located in Dayalbagh, a colony renowned for its serene environment and secular establishing and conforms to an excellent academic setting contributing to the strength of the social, moral and spiritual fiber of the institute`s educational system. 

​EDUSAT -- (Education Satellite), reportedly is a network completely an audio-visual medium using multimedia technology wherein teacher-student connectivity is facilitated in distance mode by creating a Teaching End and Classroom End -- is connected to 57 centres in India and is in regular use. 

EDUSAT  Leased line  connectivity  from DEI to its centres at Soami Nagar, Delhi and between Rajabori (Hardha District) and between Tirmani at Madhya Pradesh  has been established.  In addition virtual labs facilities through Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) have been established to facilitate National Mission of Education (NME) through Information and communications technology (ICT) to facilitate communication, creation, dissemination, storage, and  information management and  enhances the connectivity of national knowledge.

DEI has successfully maintained large repository of recorded video lectures and printed material for for various Vocational Certification and Diploma programs. Some of these are also available in local languages like Tamil and Telugu.​

Question and answer session then took place followed by networking.

Drought, food insecurity, poverty and inequality are some of the challenges that hinder efforts to get more Somaliland children and youth in schools. The education prospects for children in rural areas, and school age Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Somaliland are particularly poor: only 26 per cent of children in rural communities, and 16 per cent of IDP children, are enrolled in primary schools.

The programme, which will run for three years, has a budget of $64 million, with initial seed money of $6.7 million provided by Education Cannot Wait. The remaining $57.3 million is being sought from additional donors. The programme is expected to provide more than 54,000 children with an education.

A UNICEF statement released on Saturday explained that the aim is to “achieve improved l
earning outcomes for school-aged children who are affected by emergencies”, by increasing access to quality, inclusive, gender-sensitive, child-friendly and sustainable education.

“In our collective quest to reach the Global Goals, it is unacceptable that one in every two children in Somaliland doesn’t have the opportunity of an education”, said Yasmine Sherif, Director of Education Cannot Wait. “With the launch of this programme, we firmly stand with these children and youth. We stand with the Government and all our education partners”.

Implementation of the Action Plan includes over 140 measures to increase protection of ecosystems, improve understanding and water management of the Peace-Athabasca Delta, strengthen relationships with Indigenous partners, and support the recovery of iconic species for which the World Heritage Site was established, such as Whooping Cranes and Wood Bison. ​

Canada is home to several of UNESCO World Heritage sites and the Government of Canada is committed to their ongoing protection.

The World Heritage Committee’s annual meeting is currently taking place in Baku, Azerbaijan

World Heritage sites represent some of humanity’s most outstanding achievements and nature’s most inspiring creations. 

Today, at its annual meeting, the WHC adopted a decision on the state of conservation of WBNPWHS  and did not inscribe Wood Buffalo National Park on the List of World Heritage in Danger.

The Government of Canada was aware that climate change and external development pressures are having serious impacts on the WBNPWHS at Peace Athabasca Delta.

Canada is taking measures including strengthening relationships with Indigenous peoples, protecting the ecological integrity of the park and surrounding ecosystems, and taking action to improve water management in the Peace Athabasca Delta and has invested $27.5 million through Budget 2018.

This funding is part of the historic $1.35 billion investment by the Government of Canada to protect Canada’s nature, parks, and wild spaces – a true legacy for our children and grandchildren.

Decision has been taken to create new Wildland Provincial Parks by the Government of Alberta in collaboration with Indigenous groups to conserve more than 6.7 million hectares of boreal forest, the largest protected boreal forest in the world. This would  provide significant buffers and landscape connectivity to support the conservation of the Peace-Athabasca watershed and the recovery of iconic species such as Whooping Cranes and Wood Bison. 

Through ongoing collective action with provincial, territorial, and Indigenous partners, the Government of Canada will preserve the Outstanding Universal Value of Wood Buffalo National Park World Heritage Site so that it remains a treasured place for generations to come.

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“While we are pleased that the World Heritage Committee’s decision has recognized the... value of Wood Buffalo National Park World Heritage Site; there's a lot more work to do...Through ongoing collaboration and action, including with eleven Indigenous communities in the region, we will preserve Wood Buffalo National Park World Heritage Site for the benefit of Canadians and the world,” said Catherine McKenna, Minister of Environment and Climate Change and Minister responsible for Parks Canada. ​

Just last week reports revealed that archaeologists had discovered inside one baptismal font, or basin of holy water used for the baptism rite, a more ancient font that dates back to the sixth or seventh century.

Since the Second Century the church, situated 10 kilometers south of Jerusalem, has been identified by Christians as the birthplace of Christ.

While the edifice of a church built there in 339 CE was replaced after a fire in the sixth century, the elaborate floor mosaics were retained from the original building.

The official site also includes Latin, Greek Orthodox, Franciscan and Armenian convents and churches, as well as bell towers, terraced gardens and a pilgrimage route.

Inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2012, due to the poor state of the Nativity Church, it was simultaneously added to the List of World Heritage in Danger.

Others on the list include Syria’s ancient cities of Aleppo, Bosra and Damascus, all inscribed in 2013, and the “Maritime Mercantile City of Liverpool” in the United Kingdom – which consists of six locations in the city centre– inscribed in 2012.
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The 54 properties on the List of World Heritage in Danger aim to alert the international community to threats to essential characteristics for which a property was initially inscribed on the World Heritage List. These can include armed conflicts, natural disasters, unplanned urbanization, poaching or pollution.