The conference centered on three main problems to getting and keeping girls in school: violence,poverty and poor quality education.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

These included questions from Rwandan students about subjects like drug use, H.I.V./AIDS and girls in school who get pregnant.

VOA: special.2009.11.12

In Kenya,a project aims to educate girls about H.I.V.prevention while helping them stay in school during their monthly periods.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

He said girls in one Dakar school told him about a lack of bathrooms and textbooks for them, and bullying from boys.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

The aim is to bring primary school education to all girls and boys worldwide by two thousand fifteen.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

After Title Nine became law, the number of girls who joined high school sports teams sharply increased.

VOA: special.2010.03.04

Girls from poor families can miss up to a week of school each month because they do not have enough money for supplies.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

She went on to become an English teacher, librarian and girls' basketball coach at Jay Allen High School in High Point, North Carolina.

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Ms. Streeter wants to help these girls to be successful in school and avoid early pregnancy.

VOA: special.2009.01.28

She expresses the importance of girls going to school and working hard to learn.

VOA: special.2009.11.27

Satira Streeter is having fun with a group of girls after school.

VOA: special.2009.01.28

So Clara went to a special school for girls in Massachusetts.

VOA: special.2009.07.26

A group of girls was waiting to enter the school.

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And many girls become pregnant while still in school.

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The rulers would not let girls go to school.

VOA: special.2009.06.15

Saylan's associates said the seizures and arrests paralyzed their work in providing financial support to 70,000 girls attending school.

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

Many of them are girls, who often stay out of school to do household chores or look after siblings.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

She is very anti-militarist person," "The house was searched, the whole organization was searched because what they do most: they send girls to school.

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He adds many girls were threatened by the Taliban to block them from going to school.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

More than half of those not in school are girls, and more than two-thirds of them are in sub-Saharan Africa and South and West Asia.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

At the week-long conference, participants are focusing on three primary roadblocks to getting and keeping girls in school: violence,poverty and the poor quality of education being offered.

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Co-author Andresse St.Rose says, for example,while girls earn high school math credits at the same rate as boys, the myth that girls aren't good at math is persistent and powerful.

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

He said girls in one Dakar school explained to him some of the daily challenges they face, such as the lack of bathrooms in the school, bullying from boys, and a lack of textbooks.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

I wrote this son, my father and I wrote this song, for the acid victims of Kandahar City -- a few young girls who were trying to make their way home from school when they got attacked by acid.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

Lake is one of 200 scholars, government officials, civil society workers and development partners in Dakar this week for a conference organized by the UN Girls' Education Initiative, an international partnership aimed at achieving gender equality and universal primary school education by 2015.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

Frictions between Islam and the West often flare up - like when when a Danish newspaper published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed - or when Muslim girls in Europe went to school wearing veils, or new minarets in Switzerland were banned.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

And we need to form an even stronger partnership to bring down the walls of the 21st century and to confront those who hide behind them the suicide bombers, those who murder and maim girls whose only wish is to go to school, leaders who chose their own fortunes over the fortunes of their people,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.09