Teachers, Bus Driver Slain in Iraq

Despite an attack on a primary school in Iraq last week in which intruders shot and killed six school workers, UNICEF’s education chief for Iraq predicts that parents there will continue to take extraordinary risks to send their children to school.

The attack “will always have a negative effect, but the Iraqi people value education so much that they are prepared to take the risk and make sure that their children go to school,” Maman Sidikou, the education section chief for Iraq for UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund, said in a Sept. 28 e-mail...