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In the past year, celebrities like Oprah G. Winfrey and Madonna have come under fire for the elaborate girls’ secondary schools they have built in South Africa and Malawi respectively; grassroots activists assert that, in building such western-style schools, both women fall short of maximizing their potential...

Author: By Elizabeth C. Cowan | Title: The Importance of Educating Girls | 5/26/2010 | See Source »

Schools built by small, grass-roots NGOs operate on the inverse theory of change, striving to revolutionize the local status quo rather than affect national or global change. Usually rural instead of urban and almost always consistent with government standards, schools built by organizations like Achieve-in-Africa, BuildAfrica, Ripple...

Author: By Elizabeth C. Cowan | Title: The Importance of Educating Girls | 5/26/2010 | See Source »

Ultimately, thinking of girls’ education as the most effective investment option in the developing world helps justify the need for both types of change using basic economic theory. Just as any good stockbroker takes care to diversify each of her portfolios, American philanthropists as a group are wise...

Author: By Elizabeth C. Cowan | Title: The Importance of Educating Girls | 5/26/2010 | See Source »

As counterintuitive as it may seem, these two methods of educating girls in the developing world are complementary rather than contrary. Both the risky and the safe, the top-down and the bottom-up, the leadership academy and the village school are necessary to affect meaningful change in the developing...

Author: By Elizabeth C. Cowan | Title: The Importance of Educating Girls | 5/26/2010 | See Source »

Smith goes on to argue that rules of justice can be generalized from our individual moral sentiments. We conclude that slavery is unjust from the fact that we sympathize not only with the fictional Eliza but with all those who really suffered under slavery. Our society can then be called...

Author: By Michael L. Frazer | Title: Empathy, Obama, and Adam Smith | 5/26/2010 | See Source »

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