by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Dec 13, 2012 | Society
Lebanon has been participating in the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) since 2003 – an international assessment of the mathematics and science knowledge of fourth grade and eighth grade students around the world. Lebanon however has...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Nov 11, 2009 | Society
I’m sure you’ve all heard it before. Lebanon boosts the best universities in the Middle East … blah, blah, and so on. Well, I think our selection of higher education has just got better when I found this in my Inbox this morning: In the event you...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Oct 31, 2009 | Power & Water
After over two decades of rolling blackouts, some schools have finally seen the light (thanks to donations, of course): Lebanon’s remote northeastern district of Akkar, teachers and pupils at the Rajam Issa public school are hoping this winter will be the first when...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | May 3, 2009 | Society
Having attended Sagesse High School, I witnessed first-hand discrimination kids inflict on one another. Even in what was largely a (sort of) diversified group of students, mostly returning Lebanese expats, discrimination was ripe. Mockery and disassociation was the...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Feb 19, 2009 | Society
Whatever happened to class trips to the museum? A weeklong trip to Lebanon will not seem real to Wausau East High School students until they board an airplane Saturday. Really to Lebanon? Apparently these are International Baccalaureate (IB) students who’ve been...