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Thursday, February 16, 2012 Community mentors help the After School Matters program serve more than 25,000 Chicago middle and high school students in programs covering the arts and sciences. Be sure to click "like" if you enjoyed the video!
Saturday, February 11, 2012 The strength of its well-known global brands have been cited as a factor in Germany's economic stability, but low-profile firms that produce highly-engineered goods are also helping to aid the economy amid Europe's financial crisis.
The mostly family-owned medium-sized companies, known as the Mittlestand, employ more than two-thirds of the country's workforce.
Adding to the Mittelstand's success is Germany's veneration for trademark engineering, backed by an education system that offers more than 300 apprenticeships starting in high school, and creating a highly-skilled labour pool.
Al Jazeera's Nick Spicer reports from southern Germany.
Mittlestand, Powering, firms, german, success Wednesday, February 8, 2012 Early intervention and sustained individual support for every student are keys to educating the whole child in Finnish schools. Be sure to click "like" if you enjoyed this video! Produced in partnership with the Pearson Foundation (http://www.pearsonfoundation.org).
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 A team of scientists from Bristol University in the UK will be watching with particular interest as this year's Grammy Awards ceremony hands out statuettes for musical achievement in 2011. The scientists have developed algorithmic software they say can predict whether a song will be a hit or a flop with 60 percent accuracy, a development that could one day make the job of the Grammy judges much easier. Jim Drury reports.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 A blind child in Bangladesh is beating all odds to become the top of his class.
He has to rely on braille, one of the world's first encoding systems of reading and writing for the visually impaired or blind, to get by in school.
Nicolas Haque reports from the town of Hasnabad, near Dhaka, Bangladesh's capital.
