
How Can Education and Development Policies Impact the World?
Listen to a radio interview with Suzanne Grant Lewis, IIEP Director, and Daniel Wagner, one of the editors of Learning at the Bottom of the Pyramid - How Education and Development Policies Can Impact the World - on Wharton Business Radio from the University of Pennsylvania. Listen to the interview, here!

Pompeo must improve foreign aid, trickle-down education doesn’t work
As published in The Hill - 03.20.2018 By most accounts, Mike Pompeo earned his new job as Secretary of State by urging the U.S. to flex its muscle in North Korea, Iran, and other hotspots around the globe. But if Pompeo is to succeed as secretary, he'll have to do better at deploying American soft power.
Standoffs over nuclear weapons and election influencing understandably dominate the headlines, but U.S. foreign policy is much broader than those issues. High-profile flash

US leaving UNESCO is a truly bad idea
As Published in The Hill - 11.17.2017 In Independence Hall — one of the few UNESCO World Heritage sites in the United States — our nation’s founders laid out a vision that protected human rights, the rule of law, education and culture. U.S. leaders again championed these values in 1945, when UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, was created to foster dialogues and bridge inherently conflicting human perspectives. They did this because