By Barry Bearak
QALAI SAYEDAN, Afghanistan: With their teacher absent, 10 students were allowed to leave school early. These were the girls the gunmen saw first, 10 easy targets walking hand-in-hand through the blue metal gate and on to the winding dirt road.
Afghanistan: Transforming a "13th Century Curriculum into a 21st Century Curriculum"

The Haberman International Policy Institute in Education