Learning Curve

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The US spent hundreds of millions of dollars to build schools in Afghanistan. We find out what became of that project and hear why it might not have been money well spent. Then, no matter what the overall state of Afghan schools, there are individual success stories - we hear one of them. Also, a shortage of bilingual teachers in America has some school districts recruiting across the border. A former US Army pilot who was brought up Christian picks up a Koran. The residents of Canada’s Okanagan Indian Reservation get help from Texas A&M University to clear their land of mortars. And, the American culinary writer, Steven Raichlen, tells us the real recipe for Four and Twenty Blackbirds Baked in a Pie. (Photo: The ruins of Nahre Karez Primary School. Credit: BuzzFeed News)