share Need a book? Write your own Developing countries face overcrowded classrooms and empty libraries. Students have started addressing this issue by filling shelves with their own stories. Read more »
share One in Ninety-Eight Ninety-eight. That's the number of kids in Rajan Tiru's class. He's in class nine — the equivalent of ninth grade in the U.S. Next year he'll be in class 10 and will need to pass a big exam so he can continue his studies. Read more »
share Where Cell Phones Are Required for Class Roughly 44 percent of women in Pakistan are literate, according to 2008 figures from the Pakistani government. Read more »
share Bhutanese immigrants face up to realities in the Land of Dreams I came across the story of Tul Bahadur Tiwari, a Bhutanese refugee from Nepal, on National Radio Project. Tul is looking for work after moving with his family to Oakland, California this year. Read more »