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Breaking The Taboo Of Talking About Periods
A group of students at the Calicut Medical College wanted to get people to speak more openly about menstruation. So they launched a poetry contest.(Image credit: Hanna Barczyk for NPR)
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Grading The World's Textbooks: Making Progress But Needs Improvement
A UNESCO survey shows that schoolbooks often minimize, brush aside or misrepresent important issues, from gender equality to environmental protection.(Image credit: Courtesy of Global Education...
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Travel Ban Keeps Scientists Out Of The Lab
The Trump administration's travel ban is preventing some researchers from returning to the U.S. Scientists fear this could negatively impact collaborations and international scientific meetings.(Image...
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'Edutainer' Hans Rosling, Who Taught Us About The World, Has Died
With facts, toys and good humor, the Swedish doctor and statistician helped people understand what numbers tell us about the world.(Image credit: Matthew Lloyd/Getty Images for ReSource 2012/Getty Images)
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Big City Escapee Is Living In A Mud Hut — And Loving It
Most young people in the tiny Indian village of Chanka dream of life in the big city. But Girindra Nath Jha gave up his New Delhi life to return to his birthplace.(Image credit: Courtesy Shivalkar Jha)
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Why I Stopped Getting Mad At My Tough Love Mama
She wanted my four siblings and me to work hard. We wanted to play. But as an adult, I'm glad she was the kind of mom she was.(Image credit: Courtesy Esther Ngumbi)
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Why Are Kids Sitting At Their Desks In The Middle Of The Road?
It all started when a school was demolished — for reasons not entirely clear — over the weekend in Nairobi.(Image credit: Moses Muoki/Kenya's Capital News)
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My Improbable Graduation: From A Tiny Village In Ghana To Johns Hopkins
George Mwinnyaa didn't get high enough scores for admission in his homeland. So he put his dreams on hold. Here's how he came to earn his diploma at Johns Hopkins University.(Image credit: Courtesy of...
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The Best And Worst Places To Be A Kid
A new report delivers familiar — but important — data about the nature of childhood around the world.(Image credit: Jekaterina Nikitina/Getty Images)
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They Dreamed Of Being Doctors. Now They Help Syrians With The Same Dream
Two Iranian brothers didn't let a war keep them from medical school. Now they're using mobile phones to build the next generation of doctors in Syria.(Image credit: Raquel Aparicio for NPR)
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They Quit Their Office Jobs To Teach Kids In A Camp For Displaced People
It started when a 20-something government worker in Nigeria visited a camp. And met the kids. And saw that they weren't getting much of an education.(Image credit: Linus Unah for NPR)
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Former Child Bride Is Pedaling Her Way To A Brighter Future
After Jenipher Sanni was married at 14, she dropped out of school for a year. Today, she's a a global girl advocate for the U.N. Foundation.(Image credit: Shuyao Chen/NPR)
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New Yorker Redesigns Her Life To Help Kids In Ghana
Pat Wilkins had a "high maintenance life" with expensive vacations and a BMW. Then she decided to diverge from that path.(Image credit: Amy Yee for NPR)
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Iconic Plague Images Are Often Not What They Seem
Many images that have been traditionally used to depict the Black Death are, in fact, not images of the plague at all. Now, a group of dedicated historians are trying to correct the record.(Image...
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A Mom Fights To Get An Education For Her Deaf Daughters
There were no schools for the deaf near her village in India. And she had to stand up to the bias against deafness — and the use of sign language.(Image credit: Kate Petcosky-Kulkarni for NPR)
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Computer Teacher With No Computers Chalks Up Clever Classroom Plan
Owura Kwadwo Hottish, a middle school teacher in Ghana, has found a way around the problem. He literally draws the computer screen on the blackboard.(Image credit: Frimpong Innocent)
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What We Can Learn From Ghana's Obsession With Preschool
Parents in Ghana's capital city have embraced preschool as a way to vault their kids into a better future. But the children aren't learning. And the reason may surprise you.(Image credit: Nana Kofi...
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Whatever Happened To ... The Street Kid Whose Life Was Saved By Kindness
Kennedy Odede was a homeless kid in the slum of Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya. Now he's the founder of a successful nonprofit helping his community. How are he and his group faring?(Image credit: Anwar Sadat)
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Whatever Happened To... The Millennials Who Started A School For Boko Haram...
The two young Nigerians have learned a lesson about teaching kids at a camp for displaced persons: Leave it to the experts!(Image credit: Linus Unah for NPR)
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'Floating Schools' Make Sure Kids Get To Class When The Water Rises
Monsoon floods won't stop these kids from going to school in Bangladesh — especially if the school comes to the student!(Image credit: Mahmud Hossain Opu for NPR)
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