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October 6, 2006

For Afghan Girls, Learning Goes on in the Shadows

UW Grad Thomas Barnett:

"For Afghan Girls, Learning Goes On, In the Shadows: Home classes proliferate as insurgents attack schools," schools," by Pamela Constable, Washington Post National Weekly Edition, 2-8 October 2006, p. 17. 17.
It all starts with educating young girls, the one great predictor of development.

Naturally, in Afghanistan, it is the great consistent target of the Taliban, who have "targeted dozens of schools in the past year, especially those teaching girls."

The resurrection of schooling, especially that for girls, was heralded as the great advance in post-Taliban Afghanistan. From nowhere, five million kids were in school. Now that tide is receding in areas threatened by the Taliban and across much of the rest of the country--just too dangerous:

Posted by Jim Zellmer at October 6, 2006 6:37 AM
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