Early Childhood Development: A Chinese National Priority and Global Concern for 2015 | Brookings Institution. As the country with the largest population in the world, 100 million children under the age of six in China stand to benefit from increased access to high quality early childhood education.
For instance, in Brazil, Mexico and Uruguay, children of parents in the top socioeconomic quartile achieved mathematics scores that are 25 to 30 percent higher than those in the poorest quartile. A recent study in Honduras demonstrated that nearly 30 percent of young people could not read a single word of connected text after two
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It’s Time for a Development Wake-up Call: Sad News for Global Education and the Millennium Development Goals | Brookings Institution. According to the data, 61 million children of primary school age were not in school in 2010. At first glance, this seems like an improvement over the 67 million kids reported out of school in
Global Scholars Program. Promoting Girls’ Education in Developing Countries. CUE works to build expertise on girls’ education policies and programs in developing countries. Through our Global Scholars Program, CUE hosts guest scholars from developing countries for a six-month period to pursue research on global education issues, with a specific focus on improving learning opportunities and outcomes
