List of Education articles
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Afghan school girls play in the yard after their class at Ayesha primary school in Mazar-i Sharif on April 12, 2013. Under the hard line Taliban, who ruled Afghanistan between 1996 and 2001, cinema was banned and girls were prohibited from attending school. AFP PHOTO/ Farshad USYAN (Photo credit should read FARSHAD USYAN/AFP/Getty Images) Longform’s Picks of the Week
The best stories from around the world.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Welcome to Afghanistan’s Peace College
Can you teach your way out of a war?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 China’s Cutthroat Academic Competition Is Ruining a Generation of Youth
The 'gaokao' college entrance exam is really a merciless struggle for wealth and power.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 To bridge the gap between the military and society, try this grass roots approach
Best Defense contributor asks what can be done to close the civ-mil gap.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A Chinese Feminist, Made in America
How four years at Amherst College changed my perception of my home country, and myself.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 China’s Hot New Luxury Product: the SAT
Wealthy Chinese students are ditching the country’s infamous college entrance exam and taking America’s standardized test instead.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Making ‘Countering Violent Extremism’ Sound Sexy
Since January, students at 23 universities around the world have taken part in a “peer-to-peer” competition to research, design, and launch U.S. State Department-backed social media campaigns aimed at countering the influence of the Islamic State and other terrorist groups in their communities.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 For American Students in China, Some Risks, No Regrets
Life in the People's Republic can be trying — but for a young American, it's also transformative. FP surveys a rising generation of cross-cultural natives.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Stephen Schwarzman Wants to Create a Global Network for Peace
The private equity mogul does not think of his eponymous China studies program as just a scholarship — he thinks of it as a way to avoid war.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Communists that China Forgot
Not an hour from Beijing is a hard-core leftist's "utopia," free from modern Chinese materialism. Welcome to Righteous Path Farm Academy.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Nigerians See Cynicism in Army’s Speculation of Chibok Girls’ Rescue
The Nigerian Army announced Tuesday that it rescued hundreds of women and girls from a Boko Haram camp in northern Nigeria. But its decision to clarify that it wasn't clear whether some were the missing Chibok girls sparked anger on social media.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Don’t push me!: How being on the CGSC faculty is sending me right over the edge
Since many of CGSC’s problems are systemic, it is difficult to know where to begin, so let’s start with organization.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Where’s the Beef? Five of the World’s More Unusual Textbook Kerfuffles
Textbook troubles have erupted over some surprising questions.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Hey Tom, we’ve made a whole bunch of changes down here at the Air University
In recent years, calls to shutter the doors of Air War College have routinely filled the Best Defense blog.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 China’s Top Schools Get Middling Marks for Transparency
Elite Peking University fared particularly poorly in newly released rankings.
