NPR – Marc Silver
“Last week, the Taliban attacked the Army Public School in Peshawar, Pakistan, killing more than 140 people, most of them schoolchildren. In a country where only 57 percent of elementary-school age children attend school, how will this massacre affect efforts to bring more youngsters into class?…For insights, we turned to Madiha Afzal, who grew up in the city of Lahore. She is an assistant professor at the University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy and a non-resident fellow at the Brookings Institution…People may be very scared to send their kids to school, but if the government tells them it’s ok, they’ll send kids to school…It sounds cliché to say it, but they really just want their kids to be educated. People in Pakistan are very brave, really attached to the idea of a good education.”(more)