Cohen, Joel E. / (ed.)

Bloom, David Elliot / (ed.)

Malin, Martin B. / (ed.)

Benavot, Aaron

Bettinger, Eric

Binder, Melissa

Braun, Henry

Buchmann, Claudia

Cohen, Joel E.

Corrales, Javier

Curry, Helen Anne

Glewwe, Paul

Hannum, Emily

Kanjee, Anil

Kremer, Michael

Malin, Martin B.

Resnik, Julia

Sperling, Gene

Zhao, Meng

American Academy of Arts and Sciences <Cambridge, Mass.>

Educating all children.

A global agenda.

Cambridge, Mass.

2006

026253293X

9780262532938

0262033674

9780262033671

Quelle: http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11199

Verlagsinfo:

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."

Contributors:
Aaron Benavot, Eric Bettinger, Melissa Binder, David E. Bloom, Henry Braun, Claudia Buchmann, Joel E. Cohen, Javier Corrales, Helen Anne Curry, Paul Glewwe, Emily Hannum, Anil Kanjee, Michael Kremer, Martin B. Malin, Julia Resnik, Gene Sperling, and Meng Zhao

About the Editors:
Joel E. Cohen is Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of Populations at Rockefeller University and Professor of Populations at Columbia University.
David E. Bloom is Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography and Chair of the Department of Population and International Health at the Harvard University School of Public Health.
Martin B. Malin is Director of the Program on Science and Global Security at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Quelle: http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11199&mode=toc

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
FOREWORD
The Way Forward for Universal Education by Gene Sperling

INTRODUCTION
Universal Basic and Secondary Education by Joel E. Cohen, David E. Bloom, Martin B. Malin, and Helen Anne Curry

Section I: Basic Facts and Data
CHAPTER 1
Measuring Global Educational Progress by David E. Bloom

Section II: Historical Legacies, Political Obstacles
CHAPTER 2
Lessons from the Past: A Comparative Socio-Historical Analysis of Primary and Secondary Education by Aaron Benavot and Julia Resnik
CHAPTER 3
Political Obstacles to Expanding and Improving Schooling in Developing Countries by Javier Corrales

Section III: Improving Education
CHAPTER 4
Using Assessment to Improve Education in Developing Nations by Henry Braun and Anil Kanjee
CHAPTER 5
Evaluating Educational Interventions in Developing Countries by Eric Bettinger
CHAPTER 6
Expanding Educational Opportunity on a Budget: Lessons from Randomized Evaluations by Michael Kremer

Section IV: Costs
CHAPTER 7
Attaining Universal Primary Schooling by 2015: An Evaluation of Cost Estimates by Paul Glewwe and Meng Zhao
CHAPTER 8
The Cost of Providing Universal Secondary Education in Developing Countries by Melissa Binder

Section V: Consequences
CHAPTER 9
Global Educational Expansion and Socio-Economic Development: An Assessment of Findings from the Social Sciences by Emily Hannum and Claudia Buchmann
CHAPTER 10
Education, Health, and Development by David E. Bloom

CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX