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Roya Rahmani in a dark blue outfit and white hijab sitting in front of the US and Afghan flags

Afghan amb to the US on the Taliban: ‘They are not interested in peace but power’

Conflict & Justice

The Afghan ambassador to the US, Roya Rahmani, spoke to The World’s host Marco Werman about the security situation in Afghanistan, and the government’s handling of it.

Child looks at camera while sucking thumb

In Arkansas, schools are supposed to teach in English. Here’s how one district gets around it.

Education
Girl sitting with other students look to side

Once, students were punished for speaking Spanish. Here, they are honored.

Education
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New to America’s school system, this immigrant family found itself playing catch-up from the minute they enrolled

Education
A school refurbished with US funding in Nangarhar province in February.

Have we been duped? The successful building of schools in Afghanistan may be overstated

Education
Eighth grader Tanzid Sakib goes to public school in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He arrived from Bangladesh at the age of 10.

Tanzid Sakib’s first experience with an American school literally left him on the floor

Education

Imagine having the chair pulled out from under you the second you walk into a US classroom. Tanzid Sakib can laugh about it now. The teenager from Bangladesh recalls his first days of public school in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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How do we raise a global nation?

Education

America’s classrooms are becoming more diverse — fast. What are the best ways to help immigrant kids learn?

The Truong family arrived to the United States not long after fleeing Vietnam in 1975, when the then-capital of South Vietnam, Saigon, fell to the North Vietnamese army. Thu-Thuy Truong, far right, places bunny ears above her brother, Sy.

New to America, this young Vietnamese refugee wanted to ‘erase’ his past

Conflict

A brother and sister remember their abrupt start to a new life in America after they fled collapsing South Vietnam. It’s one story among the many collected by StoryCorps from Vietnamese refugees whose lives were changed by the fall of Saigon in 1975.

Student at Gibson High School in Monrovia, Deborah Natt,16, is smiling to be back at school. At every entrance there is a handwashing station.

As Ebola loosens grip, Liberia’s schools begin re-opening

Health

In Liberia, the first thing pupils do is have their temperatures taken. Schools had been shut for seven months after the Ebola outbreak.

Liberian American Shoana Solomon started a campaign called "I am a Liberian, not a virus," to combat the stigma of Ebola.

The ‘I am Liberian, not a virus’ campaign confronts the stigma of Ebola

Health

Liberian American Shoana Solomon is one of four women who have launched the “I am Liberian, not a virus” campaign to fight the stigma of Ebola. She’s been especially motivated to battle unwarranted fear of West Africans since her nine-year-old daughter was harassed at her school in Delaware.

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