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Week 13
Themes: Improving Female School Participation
Preparation
  1. Read: The State of the World’s Children 2004 [chs. 2, 4] http://www.unicef.org/publications/index_18108.html The report focuses on the relationship of girls' education to social and economic development.
  2. View: The 3short video clips of that underscore the need for expanding women’s schooling opportunities http://www.halftheskymovement.org/issues/education 
  3.  View: “Kibera School for Girls” http://inkibera.org/baba-diana/ [4:16]
  4. Read: Maureen Lewis and Marlaine Lockheed. “Overview” (p. 1-17) in Inexcusable Absence: Why 60 million girls are still out of school and what to do about it. Washington, DC: Brookings Institute and the Center for Global Development. http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/11898/
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Online Discussion Global Issues in Education