February 2, 2013
Categories: Foreign Policy, Millennium Development Goals, Report On Education, Strategies
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Education and the Post-2015 Development Agenda | Brookings Institution. As the 2015 expiration date for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) approaches, the goal of achieving universal access to primary education is unlikely to be realized. Worldwide, 61 million children still do not have access to primary school and millions more are in school but not …
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November 4, 2012
Categories: Report On Education, Strategies, Teachers
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In this talk Christopher Emdin talks about the true meaning and role of “peace”, “justice”, “equity” and “equality” in the classroom by talking about Reality Pedagogy. The full title of his talk is: Reality Pedagogy: Teaching, Learning, Truth, and Distortions Christopher Emdin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics, Science and Technology at …
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October 8, 2012
Categories: Africa, Millennium Development Goals, Report On Education
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Africa Learning Barometer With less than three years remaining until the 2015 deadline to meet the Millennium Development Goals, there are mounting fears that low income regions – in particular sub-Saharan Africa – are at risk of falling well short of MDG2, which focuses on equal and universal access to primary education. The Africa Learning …
August 16, 2012
Categories: Competitiveness, Report On Education, Strategies
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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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August 16, 2012
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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 …