Posted on 09/18/2012 8:12:01 AM PDT by Steve Peacock
With $83 million in Indonesian education projects, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is looking to hire a local citizen as an Education Specialist to assist in these initiatives.The local-hire only position, which requires prior teaching experience and/or a college degree, entails information dissemination responsiblities to promote USAID as well as to offer consultation to U.S. government employees, Indonesian officials, and NGO personnel involved in USAID education activities.
The selected candidate will help support the Prioritizing Reform, Innovation and Opportunities for Reaching Indonesia’s Teachers, Administrators, and Students, or PRIORITAS, program. PRIORITAS, as U.S. Trade & Aid Monitor previously reported, will benefit Islamic schools operated by the Ministry of Religious Affairs as well as public schools of the Ministry of National Education (see: Obama Administration Pours Millions into Indonesian Education -- Support for Islamic, Public Schools Begun by Bush Continues; Monitor, May 31, 2011).
The program is separate from Phase II of another U.S.-funded endeavor known as the Program to Extend Scholarships and Training to Achieve Sustainable Impacts, or PRESTASI II, which will enable about 100 “emerging Indonesian leaders” to pursue advanced degrees and other training (See: Foreigners Awarded Obama Scholarships; PatriotUpdate.com, Sept. 8, 2012).
Have you read the book The Beautiful Tree by James Tooley?
I have two copies, one I loan out, the other I mark up, underline, make notes in the margin, re-read when I’m feeling all is lost.
Let me know what you think of it.
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