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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cohen, Joel E.

Bloom, David E. (David Elliot), 1955-

Malin, Martin B.

American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational equalization--Developing countries.

Educational equalization.

Developing countries.

Education--Developing countries--Finance.

Education.

Finance.

Physical Description:

xvi, 597 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : American Academy of Arts and Sciences : MIT Press, [2006]

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.

Contents:

Foreword: The Way Forward for Universal Education / Gene Sperling xi

Introduction: Universal Basic and Secondary Education / Joel E. Cohen, David E. Bloom, Martin B. Malin, Helen Anne Curry 1

Section I Basic Facts and Data

Chapter 1 Measuring Global Educational Progress / David E. Bloom 33

Section II Historical Legacies, Political Obstacles

Chapter 2 Lessons from the Past: A Comparative Socio-Historical Analysis of Primary and Secondary Education / Aaron Benavot, Julia Resnik 123

Chapter 3 Political Obstacles to Expanding and Improving Schooling in Developing Countries / Javier Corrales 231

Section III Improving Education

Chapter 4 Using Assessment to Improve Education in Developing Nations / Henry Braun, Anil Kanjee 303

Chapter 5 Evaluating Educational Interventions in Developing Countries / Eric Bettinger 355

Chapter 6 Expanding Educational Opportunity on a Budget: Lessons from Randomized Evaluations / Michael Kremer 389

Chapter 7 Attaining Universal Primary Schooling by 2015: An Evaluation of Cost Estimates / Paul Glewwe, Meng Zhao 455

Chapter 8 The Cost of Providing Universal Secondary Education in Developing Countries / Melissa Binder 415

Section V Consequences

Chapter 9 Global Educational Expansion and Socio-Economic Development: An Assessment of Findings from the Social Sciences / Emily Hannum, Claudia Buchmann 495

Chapter 10 Education, Health, and Development / David E. Bloom 535.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

026253293X

0262033674

OCLC:

71004224

Publisher Number:

9780262532938

9780262033671