THINK BIG!

The numbers (opposite page) clearly show that current college-level attempts to help are woefully inadequate. How can MCPS, the 10th largest school district in the U.S., help fill the need?

Introducing The Montgomery Project

Step1

Raise Funds and write grants

Step2 Create courses

Teachers and students create on-line, asynchronous courses. These courses will be made up of engaging lessons and activities that in a format that students can download and do offline.

Internet access is too expensive and electricity too unpredictable in Afghanistan to require synchronous learning or massive downloads. Last summer, we learned this the hard way.

Step3 Create courses

An MCPS4All App. Make all those classes we create over summer available through the app.

Women who don’t want people to see what they are learning can simply, temporarily delete the app. The work they previously uploaded will not be lost.

Step4 Award Certificates

Many of the Afghan girls and women we met hope to go to school and work in Afghanistan in the future. Others hope to leave Afghanistan to study and work elsewhere.

All said certificates of participation and completion would do wonders for their self esteem and future prospects. We should award them certificates for the work they have already done (for this magazine and beyond). We should give them certificates for courses they complete going forward.

Step5

Repeat steps 1-4 for girls and women in other countries

Artificial Intelligence

ChatGPT BANS The Taliban bans girls & women from high school and college. Florida bans AP AfricanAmerican History. Schools ban books. CULTURE fights, skipping class, vaping BUDGET teacher pay CELLPHONES

CHEATING plagiarism CLASSROOMS