NEW YORK (AP) — Former first lady Michelle Obama is putting new force behind efforts to ensure girls overcome educational barriers in some of the world’s most economically disadvantaged areas. The ...

No Child Left Behind, the Bush-era law mandating standardized testing as a measure of school success, is not working and needs to be reformed. This was the thrust of a speech by President Barack Obama ...

Michelle Obama’s Girls Opportunity Alliance, an initiative of the Obama Foundation, has reaffirmed its global commitment to adolescent girls’ education by pledging $2.5 million to support grassroots ...

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