Thank you for reading the September 2023 issue of This Awful Awesome Life. Previous issues are available to read on our website. Go to www.thisawfulawesomelife.com and start scrolling or you can enter specific search criteria.

Next month we are celebrating Women’s’ Health. As we do every October, we’ll be taking a look at the fight against breast cancer, but we will be including heart disease, mental health, and reproductive health.

We’re also celebrating the coming of fall and of course, Halloween.

Lilly Kauffman, Orlando Bartro, Linda Cahill, and I will be back with interesting articles and recipes for you.

Internationally best-selling author Luke Murphy has a new book, The Cradle will Fall, coming out soon. We’ll be reviewing it and chatting with Luke in an upcoming issue.

We’ll be continuing our reading recommendations, streaming articles, “What’s in a Word?” and “Dare to Believe.”

Plus, we’ll have a quiz, the month in pictures, and book reviews.

Stay safe. Stay well. You are important, and you are loved.

All my best,

Fran             

Answers to the September 2023 Education Quiz:

1.    Two hundred years ago, only 1 In 10 adults could read and write. Today 9 in 10 adults can read and write.

2.    Today roughly 4.6 billion people can read and write.

3.    The two main reasons children around the world are unable to attend school  are poverty and on-going conflict or violence in the region.

4.    Free school lunch programs are cited by UNESCO as one of the best ways to improve school attendance in countries around the world.

5.    In 1635, the Boston Latin School became the first public school in what would become the United States of America.

6.    According to the 2021 U.S. Census, one in three American adults has a bachelor’s degree or higher That’s up from one in twenty in 1940 before American veterans began taking advantage of the G.I. Bill.

7.    In Europe during the Middle Ages, education literacy was greatly influenced by conflict and competition among religious movements.

8.    During the 19th century, there was a growing movement among the European states to provide a free, universal, and compulsory education system that was secular with trained teachers and suitable buildings.

9.    In pre-colonial Africa, education was informal consisting of apprenticeships whereby children and young adults were taught specific skills by older members of the household or community.

10. In post-colonial Africa, the education system was controlled by the European military, missionaries, and colonists with little to no regard for African traditions or academia.