Keeping Girls In School
VIEW EVENT DETAILSThe issue of gender-based educational rights remains a challenge for many Asian countries, particularly in rural areas. There are many reasons why girls have no access to basic education or drop out from schools. These include economic considerations, gender bias, safety, lack of adequate school facilities within their neighborhoods, and absence of female role models in schools.
Girls' education is vital to a country's development because it promotes investment in human resources and is capable of raising living standards and encouraging social stability if managed well.
In this panel discussion, Cory Heyman, Carol Yost, and David Sprague will speak about working towards achieving the elusive goal of getting girls to continue their education through secondary school, and how broader research in the education sector has shaped their thinking over the last decade.
Dr. Cory Heyman serves as the Chief Program Officer, supporting Room to Read's Habit of Reading portfolio (Reading Room, Local Language Publishing, and School Room programs), the Girls' Education program, and the Monitoring and Evaluation unit. Heyman has acted as a close advisor to Room to Read since 2004, when he assisted in developing the organization's first monitoring and evaluation study. Heyman brings with him extensive experience in international development and education, having recently served as the Vice President and Deputy Director of the Academy for Educational Development's Center for Gender Equity.
Carol Yost has been with The Asia Foundation since 1986. In 1993 she designed and launched a dedicated program to increase women's participation in public decision-making and political processes to address their priority issues. As director of the Women's Empowerment Program, she oversees all of the Foundation's programs to advance women across the Asia-Pacific region in conjunction with the Foundation's country field offices and local partner organizations. Based in Washington, DC, Yost travels to Asia regularly to collaborate with the Foundation's expert staff to develop programs that further women's political participation, legal rights, education, and economic opportunity and to support efforts that combat violence against women and trafficking of women and children.
Dr. David Sprague has spent nearly his entire professional career working in the field of education. After teaching for five years in both public and private schools in the US, he returned to graduate school and received his Ph.D. in Education from Florida State University. He joined USAID in 1972. From 1979 to 1988 he was the Director of the Office of Education in AID/Washington's technical bureau. After converting to the Foreign Service, he spent the next 12 years in Pakistan, Ukraine, and Bangladesh. After retiring from USAID in 2000, Sprague lived and worked as an education consultant in Egypt, Jordan, and Pakistan.
Girls' education is vital to a country's development because it promotes investment in human resources and is capable of raising living standards and encouraging social stability if managed well.
In this panel discussion, Cory Heyman, Carol Yost, and David Sprague will speak about working towards achieving the elusive goal of getting girls to continue their education through secondary school, and how broader research in the education sector has shaped their thinking over the last decade.
Dr. Cory Heyman serves as the Chief Program Officer, supporting Room to Read's Habit of Reading portfolio (Reading Room, Local Language Publishing, and School Room programs), the Girls' Education program, and the Monitoring and Evaluation unit. Heyman has acted as a close advisor to Room to Read since 2004, when he assisted in developing the organization's first monitoring and evaluation study. Heyman brings with him extensive experience in international development and education, having recently served as the Vice President and Deputy Director of the Academy for Educational Development's Center for Gender Equity.
Carol Yost has been with The Asia Foundation since 1986. In 1993 she designed and launched a dedicated program to increase women's participation in public decision-making and political processes to address their priority issues. As director of the Women's Empowerment Program, she oversees all of the Foundation's programs to advance women across the Asia-Pacific region in conjunction with the Foundation's country field offices and local partner organizations. Based in Washington, DC, Yost travels to Asia regularly to collaborate with the Foundation's expert staff to develop programs that further women's political participation, legal rights, education, and economic opportunity and to support efforts that combat violence against women and trafficking of women and children.
Dr. David Sprague has spent nearly his entire professional career working in the field of education. After teaching for five years in both public and private schools in the US, he returned to graduate school and received his Ph.D. in Education from Florida State University. He joined USAID in 1972. From 1979 to 1988 he was the Director of the Office of Education in AID/Washington's technical bureau. After converting to the Foreign Service, he spent the next 12 years in Pakistan, Ukraine, and Bangladesh. After retiring from USAID in 2000, Sprague lived and worked as an education consultant in Egypt, Jordan, and Pakistan.
Event Details
Tue 05 Apr 2011
Asia Society Washington The Cinnabar Room Whittemore House, 2nd Floor 1526 New Hampshire Ave, NW Washington, DC
Asia Society members: $10; non-members: $15. RSVPs required by 12:00 pm on April 4.