Teacher Anna Bartholome monitors pupils at MacDonald Montessori School in St. Paul, Minn. The school blends principles of Italy's Reggio Emilia preschools into the curriculum, a task the Minnesota school's founder likens at times to a "rocky marriage."
Jane Davidson, Wales' minister of education, plays with pupils at the Early Years Center in Cornelly. As part of the new Welsh policies, youngsters' school days will be play-filled, while older students will do projects and research.
Nageya Omar, left, a student from Egypt, presents her research at a Community Youth Mapping conference in Washington, while Raul Ratcliffe, center, a co-director of the initiative, and Anthony George of New York City, a participant in the program, listen. The goal of the program is to link teenagers with employment and other oppotunities.
With Franklin Khanteechit looking over her shoulder, Daniella Baldwin fans out postcards that she and her classmates at Orca Elementary School in Seattle are selecting to send to their counterparts in Iran.
Haruto Yoshii, the director of a home-school support group in Tokyo, left, shows Christopher J. Klicka, a U.S.-based advocate for home schooling, a photo of home-schooled Japanese students at Mr. Klicka's Virginia home last month.
Sitting at her computer in Kochi, India, Bindu Sudheep uses headphones, a pen mouse, and a writing tablet to tutor Darrow Feldstein, a 10th grader at Beverly Hills High School in California. The fee for the service is about a third of the cost for tutors stateside.
