Religious schools increasingly offer a range of subjects as the mainstream education ban enters its fourth year.

In 1995, the international community committed to protecting the rights of adolescent girls. That was the year that 189 ...

Reflecting a generational change, two Pew surveys show boys tend to feel discouraged in the classroom, and are less likely than girls to pursue college. By Claire Cain Miller In the 1980s and ...

A 15-year-old girl reads a magazine in Afghanistan. Higher education for girls is forbidden under the ruling Islamist Taliban. A new school year has begun in Afghanistan with more than 2.2 million ...

Despite progress, about 250 million children and youth are out of school according to the UNESCO Institute for Statistics: 122 million are girls and 129 million are boys. And women still account for ...

On a sunny Tuesday morning in Vancouver, Hela Sedeqi stands outside the school she's attended since September, after arriving in Canada last summer. Sedeqi, 19, had missed several years of ...