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		<title>[OP ED] NY Times: &#8220;The Pakistan Test&#8221; by Nicholas Kristoff</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 04:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While the U.S. government is fighting Islamic extremism in Pakistan with bombs, private donations are quietly financing a more important campaign: education. Read Nicholas Kristof&#8217;s OP ED in NY Times, 11/22/08 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/opinion/23kristof.html?adxnnl=1&#38;oref=login&#38;adxnnlx=1227441607-ujcIUdgUTckG7YXC4oTzRw   View video http://video.nytimes.com/ &#8221;Books Not Bombs&#8221; &#8211; see schools operated by Developments in Literacy www.DiL.org              Barack Obama’s most difficult international test [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=icerp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5018608&amp;post=320&amp;subd=icerp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Education Policy: 10 years later</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 07:40:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New Education Policy -Two Suggestions Anjum Altaf [April 27, 1998]  &#8220;This was written in 1998 when a new education policy was announced.  The points I made then are still valid and because we did not do what was needed at that time we have lost another ten years.&#8221;  - Anjum Altaf, November 8, 2008   [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=icerp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5018608&amp;post=314&amp;subd=icerp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cell phones and education</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 07:18:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[new delhi : [Oct. 31, 2008] Students enrolled in courses through distance education may soon be getting lesson capsules on their mobile phones.   Click and read &#8230; http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Delhi/Ignou_mulls_exams_on_mobiles/articleshow/3655994.cms<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=icerp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5018608&amp;post=312&amp;subd=icerp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Greg Mortenson: &#8220;Three Cups of Tea&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2008 06:47:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What &#8211; you haven&#8217;t read &#8220;Three Cups of Tea&#8221; ?     Read this report http://www.pakistanlink.com/Community/2008/Sept08/26/03.HTM about Greg Mortenson&#8216;s work in remote areas of Pakistan &#8211; and you&#8217;ll want to read the book !!!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=icerp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5018608&amp;post=307&amp;subd=icerp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Education First&#8217; &#8211; HDF Conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2008 05:56:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read the full report of HDF Conference June 2008 in Chicago, http://www.hdf.com/hdf/newasp/convention08/convention.asp. Speaker presentations (PowerPoint) can be downloaded from the conference report.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=icerp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5018608&amp;post=303&amp;subd=icerp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Voiceless Majority?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:56:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Beyond Literacy:   An Invitation to the Voiceless Majority     [Op Ed in 'Pakistan Link', October 10, 2008] http://pakistanlink.com/Opinion/2008/Oct08/10/04.HTM   ===========================================   A voiceless majority that feels the pain of Pakistan’s problems – that’s who we are.   We want to do something but we don’t know what and where to begin.   We are concerned that things [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=icerp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5018608&amp;post=260&amp;subd=icerp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond Literacy: Education in Pakistan &#8230; and NGOs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:27:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beyond Literacy: Education in Pakistan – and Why NGOs Need to Think Again   By Anjum Altaf, Ph.D.                                              This is the edited text of the Keynote Presentation at the conference on ‘Education Reform in Pakistan’ in San Jose, California, on August 30, 2008.     Participants and panelists included the leaders of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=icerp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5018608&amp;post=244&amp;subd=icerp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Message from NEF Chairman:</title>
		<link>http://icerp.wordpress.com/2008/10/21/message-from-nef-chairman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[National Education Foundation, Pakistan Excerpts of a message from Chairman Sabeeh Qamar-uz-Zaman The education statistics in Pakistan are not encouraging. The officially claimed literacy rate is 55 percent. Nearly 6.5 million children (5-9 years) are out of school, and the number of dropouts and &#8216;miss-outs&#8217; is over 5.6 million.    These figures mean that almost [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=icerp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5018608&amp;post=149&amp;subd=icerp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Role of NGOs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NGO's should not see themselves primarily as providers of education.    It is unrealistic to believe that NGO's can provide quality education to the millions of children who are not in school.   The ultimate responsibility of providing universal education to all citizens must be accepted and delivered by government.  

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