by Dr. Vid Raatior | Aug 19, 2014 | Blog, Education
The FSM Congress recently appropriated $20,000.00 to fund scholarships for students from the Northwest region of Chuuk State. This is by far the largest amount set aside to help students from the small and remote outer islands of Pattiw, Pafeng, and Namwonweito. But...
by Dr. Vid Raatior | Jun 5, 2014 | Blog, Education, Featured Article
As a parent and an educator, I was very excited to receive the news from Chiefess Kapiolani Elementary School that my daughter, Keala, was selected to receive 3 awards at the school’s End-of-the-Year celebration. One of these was the much coveted Legislative...
by Dr. Vid Raatior | Nov 15, 2013 | Blog, Education, Featured Article
Teach for Micronesia (TFM) is being developed as an independent, non-profit organization with the mission of ending education inequity in the Pacific Island nation of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM). Modeled after the highly successful Teach for America...
by Dr. Vid Raatior | Aug 10, 2013 | Blog, Education, Featured Article
I’ve just returned from a week at Xavier High School in Chuuk, site of my first teaching years, to co-facilitate the Northwest Educators Summer Training (NEST) for over 70 public school teachers and principals and leaders from the poor and geographically remote...
by Dr. Vid Raatior | Jun 21, 2013 | Blog, Education
This video, Dare to Imagine, challenges us to re-imagine innovative ways to tackle global and local problems. It is also applicable to rethinking strategies for solving problems in education in Chuuk. The film was part of the Skoll World Forum which brought together...
by Dr. Vid Raatior | Jun 15, 2013 | Blog, Education
The news about educational reform in my fair state of Chuuk is not good. In fact, it’s becoming alarmingly bad that it deserves drastic measures. If Chuuk’s education is likened to the sinking of the Titanic, then the sequence of Chuukese headlines of that...
