A student sits in a classroom, yawning. His paper is blank. The teacher just assigned 10 sentences to be corrected for the class. He stares, with an empty mind, at his paper. He understands the ...

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I have read with interest Mr. Horton's article on, among other things, the Advanced Learning Program in our schools and I would like to add a few comments. The ALP program, as Mr. Horton says, is ...

An Afghan Local Police checkpoint commander leads a 7th Special Force Group ODA to a meeting at his village in Kandahar province. (Howard Altman photo) Seven years ago this week, a team of Green ...

KONAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan -- Villages across Afghanistan have many different views of safety. Some villages take the task of security into their own hands, resisting anyone who they view as a threat ...

(Kabul) – President Barack Obama should halt plans by the US military to expand the Afghan Local Police program until significant reforms are made in training, supervision, and accountability, Human ...