Educating all children : a global agenda / Joel E. Cohen, David E. Bloom, and Martin B. Malin, editors.

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TextSeries: The MIT Press SerPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : American Academy of Arts and Sciences : MIT Press, ©2006.Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 597 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:

text

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ISBN:

9780262270526
0262270528
1282097261
9781282097261
9786612097263
6612097264

Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Educating all children.DDC classification:

379.2/6091724 22

LOC classification:

LC213.3.D44 E33 2006eb

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81.11
DU 6000
5,3

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Contents:

Measuring global educational progress / David E. Bloom -- Lessons from the past: a comparative socio-historical analysis of primary and secondary education / Aaron Benavot and Julia Resnik -- Political obstacles to expanding and improving schooling in developing countries / Javier Corrales -- Using assessment to improve education in developing nations / Henry Braun and Anil Kanjee -- Evaluating educational interventions in developing countries / Eric Bettinger -- Expanding educational opportunity on a budget: lessons from randomized evaluation / Michael Kremer.

Attaining universal primary schooling by 2015: an evaluation of cost estimates / Paul Glewwe and Meng Zhao -- The cost of providing universal secondary education in developing countries / Melissa Binder -- Global educational expansion and socio-economic development: an assessment of findings from the social sciences / Emily Hannum and Claudia Buchmann -- Education, health, and development / David E. Bloom.

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Summary: Access to education increased enormously in the past century, and higher proportions of people are completing primary, secondary, or tertiary education than ever before. But efforts to universalize the provision of high-quality schooling face major problems. In Educating All Children (which grew out of a multidisciplinary project undertaken by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences), leading experts consider the challenges of achieving universal basic and secondary education globally. The contributors discuss the current state of education and how to measure global educational progress, the history of compulsory education, political and financial obstacles to expanding education, the role of educational assessment and evaluation in developing countries, cost estimates for providing universal education (and why they differ so widely), the potential consequences of expanded global education, and the relationship between education and health. The research suggests that achieving universal primary and secondary education is both urgently needed and feasible. Will the international community commit the necessary economic, human, and political resources? The challenge, say the editors, is "as inspiring and formidable ... as any extraterrestrial adventures--and far more likely to enrich and improve life on earth."

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Access to education increased enormously in the past century, and higher proportions of people are completing primary, secondary, or tertiary education than ever before. But efforts to universalize the provision of high-quality schooling face major problems. In Educating All Children (which grew out of a multidisciplinary project undertaken by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences), leading experts consider the challenges of achieving universal basic and secondary education globally. The contributors discuss the current state of education and how to measure global educational progress, the history of compulsory education, political and financial obstacles to expanding education, the role of educational assessment and evaluation in developing countries, cost estimates for providing universal education (and why they differ so widely), the potential consequences of expanded global education, and the relationship between education and health. The research suggests that achieving universal primary and secondary education is both urgently needed and feasible. Will the international community commit the necessary economic, human, and political resources? The challenge, say the editors, is "as inspiring and formidable ... as any extraterrestrial adventures--and far more likely to enrich and improve life on earth."

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