Over the course of the past decade, the United States of America and its coalition partners have sought to remake Afghanistan into a stable democratic polity equipped with the capacity to assert authoritative control within its borders as well as eliminate the radical Islamic threat within the country. To what extent has the US-led coalition succeeded in achieving these objectives? As of now, America and its allies have overseen the creation of a new

United States public schools have recently begun hiring international teachers for science and mathematics classes across the country. The purpose of this study is to shed light to the practice of international science and math teachers in the K-12 institutions in the United States.

The following is the proceedings of the Second Annual Convention of Turkic American Alliance under the title of "New Challenges & New Opportunities," held on November 30, 2011, in Washington DC. 

The convention proceedings feature addresses by H.E. Mehmet Simsek, Finance Minister of Turkey, The Honorable Kristen Gillibrand, US Senator of New York, and the Honorable Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, US Representative of Florida.