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Combining live, on-campus activations with broad social media initiatives, a US marketing firm has launched “Pink In School Day” and called its nationwide network of high school and college students to support the anti-bullying program on the day of March 22nd, 2011. Inspired by similar campaigns in other countries, students will wear specially made pink T-Shirts, recruit classmates to wear pink, post custom facebook profile pictures, posts and photos across their social media platforms in a show of solidarity against bullying, and in an effort to raise awareness of this growing problem. Other students across the US are urged to wear any pink shirt to join in the campaign.

The first of three symposia this semester on teaching and learning brought together David Malan (left), a lecturer on computer science, A.R.T. Artistic Director Diane Paulus (right), and Christopher Winship, the Diker-Tishman Professor of Sociology. In his opening remarks, FAS Dean Michael D. Smith said schools are going “beyond the traditional college lecture format in which the student is simply a passive listener."

The report, The hidden crisis: Armed conflict and education, cautions that the world is not on track to achieve by 2015 the six Education for All goals that over 160 countries signed up to in 2000. Although there has been progress in many areas, most of the goals will be missed by a wide margin – especially in regions riven by conflict.

Africa has the largest proportion of children, adolescents and young people in the world, Elhadj As Sy, UNICEF's regional director for eastern and southern Africa, said.

In a bizarre attempt to secure an invitation to the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, a Mexican teenager is staging a hunger strike outside the British Embassy in Mexico City.

The Eleventh meeting of the Working Group on EFA (Paris, 2-3 February) is the first of several opportunities in 2011 to accelerate the attainment of the six Education for All (EFA) goals. Composed of some 150 representatives of governments, organizations, civil society, the private sector, and research institutions, the Group will provide a platform to review progress made towards these goals over two decades.

Abigail Bok (from left) and junior counselor Cindy Guan lead a class activity for campers. “I didn’t feel like I knew anyone here,” said Guan, 17, a senior at Boston Latin School who grew up in Chinatown and volunteers in the PBHA program there. “Doing the after-school program made me feel like I was a part of my community; it made me feel like I was giving back.”

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Amy Chua is the author of two books on globalization and democracy and is a professor at Yale Law School.

A working session of the ASPnet workshop in Namibia, December 2010