Despite the fact that Malala Yousafzai, the fourteen-year-old Pakistani women's rights activist, survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban, similar attacks against women, like the one in India, are on the rise. Gayle Tzemach Lemmon says that these attacks are efforts to stamp out women's progress and the potential of women worldwide will not be realized if this type of violence is tolerated.

This session was a meeting of the Women and Foreign Policy Roundtable Series.

This meeting was presented by the Women and Foreign Policy Program.

Education Secretary Duncan and New York City Schools Chancellor Klein discuss strategies for improving the quality of the U.S. education system in order to make American students more competitive in the global market.

Listen to Robert Zoellick, president of the World Bank Group, focus on innovative approaches to advance economic opportunities for women and girls worldwide.

This session was part of the the ExxonMobil Women and Development Roundtable series, which is made possible by the generous support of ExxonMobil.

Listen to panelists present the issues surrounding maternal health as a foreign policy objective

Listen to panelists discuss possible policies to improve the state of maternal health both in the United States and abroad.

The United States should see family planning as a foreign policy priority that leads to healthier and more prosperous societies, and should increase funding, resources and support for those countries with the highest unmet need, argues CFR's Isobel Coleman.

For all its goodwill, Invisible Children's "Kony 2012" film is dangerous propaganda, pure and simple, writes David Rieff at Foreign Policy. It's not a call to make a notorious celebrity out of Joseph Kony, he writes--it's a call to war.

The National Education Policy Center's William Mathis argues that a lack of high tech jobs, not low standardized test scores, hinders America's international competitiveness.

UNICEF released its 2007 annual report, titled Women And Children: The Double Dividend of Gender Equality.

This report draws attention to the widespread and systematic use of children as fighters, porters, domestic servants or sexual possessions by government forces and armed groups.

The United Nations has released a report on global violence against children.

In his Chicago Tribune column, Clarence Page has an interesting profile of new Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf – in town to appear on Oprah. 

Save the Children released its seventh annual Mothers' Index, ranking the best–and worst–places to be a mother and a child. Scandinavian countries swept the top rankings of the best places to be a mother, while countries in sub-Saharan Aftrica dominated the bottom tier. The United States tied for tenth place with the United Kingdom. 

The Council’s Center for Universal Education has partnered with PBS Wide Angle as well as Channel Thirteen and the U.S. Global Campaign for Education to distribute the PBS Wide Angle documentary, “Back to School.”

Peter Orszag highlights research findings that reinforce the usefulness of test scores in evaluating teacher performance.

In the wake of a move to increase instructional time for Chicago public school students, Peter Orszag highlights education research showing a link between more time in the classroom and improved academic performance.

Peter Orszag explains how summer inactivity can leave lasting negative impacts on a child's academic performance and physical health.