Boarding Schools for Girls

The students of one of New York's most successful girls' schools hosted a special guest Sept. 21, when the queen of Jordan paid a visit. Darragh Worland reported on the queen's visit to East Harlem's Young Women's Leadership School in a Sept. 27 article on the website Tonic.com:

Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan ... who has been UNICEFs Eminent Advocate for Children since 2007, joined UNICEF Executive Director Ann M. Veneman to discuss the role education plays in improving childrens lives.

For the past nine years straight, every single graduate of the Young Womens Leadership School, the nation's first girls-only public school, has been admitted to institutes of higher education. In her address to the students, Queen Rania emphasized the need for the young leaders to pay it forward.

I want you, girls with voices, to speak up and shout out for girls whose cries fall silent, said HM Queen Rania. I want you to fight for them, as others are fighting for you. I want you to pull up another girl, and help her stand tall and strong. I want you to be great, and inspire greatness in others.

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