K-12 EDUCATION: THE MISSING LINK IN DEVELOPMENT
By signing the Presidential Policy Directive on Global Development, President Obama has set forth the first policy of its kind by a U.S. administration recognizing that “development is vital to U.S. national security and is a strategic, economic, and moral imperative for the United States.” For decades, the U.S. government has made global development an imperative, with private and public funders focusing, understandably, on everything from micro-lending programs to bringing together cross-sector partnerships…