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Education and the Post-2015 Development Agenda | Brookings Institution

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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Class Size Tradeoffs in the Court of Public Opinion | Brookings Institution

Class Size Tradeoffs in the Court of Public Opinion | Brookings Institution. Budget cuts have caused increases in class size in states across the nation in recent years.  Between 2009 and 2010, the pupil-teacher ratio in the U.S. increasedby more than half a student for the first time since the Great Depression.  The nationwide increase

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Reality Pedagogy: Christopher Emdin at TEDxTeachersCollege

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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Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 30th Anniversary Edition Table of Contents and summaries: Introduction to the Anniversary Edition by Donald Macedo Foreword by Richard Shaull Preface Chapter 1 The justification for a pedagogy of the oppressed; the contradiction between the oppressors and the oppressed, and how it is overcome; oppression and the oppressors; oppression and the oppressed; liberation:

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