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...mission statement, works to “eliminate educational inequality by enlisting our nations most promising future leaders in the effort.”TFA trains and oversees a core of high-achieving recent college graduates to work as public school teachers in under-served rural and urban districts for a minimum of two years. Participants have the option of receiving funding for graduate degrees in education while they are teaching.The organization was founded by Wendy Kopp in 1990, who conceived of the idea in the undergraduate thesis she wrote at Princeton in 1989. “As I moved...
...well known in Afghanistan? Have they read your books? In Afghanistan today there is, among men, maybe a 70 to 75 percent illiteracy rate. Among women it's probably higher than 80 percent. So the people who tend to read novels are the educated, urban, progressive, affluent professionals. So it's a skewed pool of readers to begin with. Among them, I think the opinion is divided, largely on the side of being supportive. Not always agreeing with everything that I've said, but being glad that these issues are being discussed, that Afghanistan is being discussed. Also there...
...Corbusier and at the same time a private life that is very hard for people to understand. I just think biographers didn’t know where to begin. THC: On the note of art and politics, Le Corbusier was famous for wanting to improve living conditions in crowded urban environments through his architecture, for wanting to better society through art. To what extent do you feel that art should be political? NFW: Well, I think it’s absolutely wonderful to try to improve other human lives, on any scale, whether a doctor does it by providing medical...
...William Fellows, the regional water, sanitation and health adviser for UNICEF/South Asia. Worse, waste of the little water that is available is rampant. New Delhi loses as much as 50% of its water through leakage and other forms of inefficiency. It is a pattern repeated throughout the ill-planned urban areas of the developing world. "These cities are leaking buckets," says Junaid Ahmad of the World Bank. (See pictures of the politics of water in Central Asia...
...need to go 80 ft. or deeper. New Delhi groundwater levels have declined 15% to 20% over the past several years. With almost no connection between the amount of water used and its cost, there is little incentive for rural farmers to stop drilling wells or for urban residents to conserve. "The price of water is a very important mechanism," says Ahmad...