 |  | With the recession eroding school budgets, educators today are being forced to do more with less. Leading education reformer Paul Vallas and Kenneth Wong of Brown University have developed an approach to education reform that dramatically improves test scores, opens opportunity, and prepares for the future, all within tightened education budgets.
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Context Q&A | Regaining America's Competitive Edge |  | Greece Should Stay With Eurozone
Op-ed | May 17, 2012 Exiting the Eurozone will only exacerbate the austerity Greek voters have balked at, says Kent Hughes. Rather than leave, Greek economic and political leadership should seize the opportunity to rebuild a civic culture that will support stable finances and long-term growth |  | As Arab Spring Wanes, Whither Women's Rights?
Event Video | May 14, 2012 Last year's uprisings brought with them the hope of expanded rights for women. But religious fundamentalism and continuing intolerance in government institutions and political parties have blocked progress. Women share perspectives from Lebanon, Tunisia, Iraq, and Egypt.
Article | "Setbacks for Arab Women Have Outpaced Gains" by Barbara Slavin |  | Can the Startup Act Jump Start America's Economy?
CONTEXT Q&A | May 17, 2012 While established companies tend to shed employees, young businesses account for nearly all new job creation in the US. In a set of interviews, experts discuss Sens. Moran and Warner's Startup Act—aimed at enhancing America's entrepreneurial edge. | | Wilson in the News | Brazil's Ex-President Cardoso Lauded for Nation's
Return to Democracy — PRI's The World Director of the Brazil Institute Paulo Sotero says Cardoso essentially forged today's vibrant Brazil. "Based on his enormous capacity for dialogue, his enormous intellectual energy, and his activism, he brings people together (to) forge alliances and that puts Brazil on the path that Brazil is on today," says Sotero. | | Brazil's Ex-Leader Honored as Scholar — The New York Times "He is a man who profoundly studied Brazil before governing it, taking part in all of the important intellectual debates of his time, never letting himself be limited by any one theory," says Director of the Brazil Institute Paulo Sotero Paulo Sotero. "He entered politics not for traditional reasons, but for reasons of values and because he was prohibited from doing what he was originally trained to do." | | Top 9 Reasons Congress is Broken — Christian Science Monitor Nearly three dozen DC insiders recently gathered at the Wilson Center to discuss why Congress is broken. These include the former Senate parliamentarian, former members of Congress, and longtime Hill staffers. From that conversation comes this list of the nine toughest problems facing Congress today. | | Ex-minister Target of Colombian Bomb — CNN "It has all the hallmarks of a FARC operation," said Director of the Latin America Program Cynthia Arnson. The bombing comes as recent Colombian government operations and policies have caused significant setbacks for the rebel group, she says. "This kind of attack in Bogota has become extremely rare, but nonetheless seems designed to drive home a political point, that the guerrillas retain this capacity for violence." | Chihuahua City is Big Dog in Mexico Aerospace
— The Washington Times US analysts argue there is something much deeper at stake than simply tapping cheaper labor south of the border. "A full 40 percent of the content of US imports from Mexico was originally made in the United States," according to a November report by the Mexico Institute. "Despite an 'hecho en Mexico' or 'made in Mexico' label, a large portion of the money US consumers spend on Mexican imports actually goes to US companies and workers," the report states. | | Ameto Akpe at the Wilson Center — Pulitzer Center The subject of water and sanitation isn't at the forefront of Nigeria's policy debate. But it should be. "Every year, almost 200,000 kids under the age of five die from drinking unsafe water [and] many more fall terribly sick from water-related diseases like cholera, dysentery, and typhoid fever," Pulitzer Center grantee Ameto Akpe told a day-long conference at the Wilson Center. She talked about the intersection of water mismanagement and government opacity in Nigeria. The New Security Beat sums up her presentation in its two-part recap of the event. | | Setbacks for Arab Women Have Outpaced Gains — Al Monitor "We must safeguard the rights women have made before the Arab Spring," says Director of the Middle East Program Haleh Esfandiari. "They cannot be revisited." | | Encounter — Voice of America Senior Scholar Samuel Wells discusses the implications of the recent elections in France and Greece for the Eurozone crisis and transatlantic relations. | | The 'Secret' is Out — Dawn There has been mounting international concern over a tactic that has become the Obama administration's weapon of choice against terrorism suspects, writes Pakistan Scholar Zahid Hussain. | | | | | | Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
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