just had to pass this on!
here is the link to the nytimes article.
“My parents told me to keep coming to school even if I am killed,” said Shamsia, 17, in a moment after class. Shamsia’s mother, like nearly all of the adult women in the area, is unable to read or write. “The people who did this to me don’t want women to be educated. They want us to be stupid things.”
The Bayesian Heresy is MTEF: What it takes for a girl to go to school in Afghanistan.