Education: Measuring for Success in Today’s World

It’s been said that learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. Sound a little exhausting? The fact is that there are fewer and fewer jobs being created that rely on rote tasks and memorization. There are more and more jobs that require creativity,...

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Education for All by Worldbank

  Education for All (EFA) is an international initiative first launched in 1990 to bring the benefits of education to “every citizen in every society.” To realize this aim, a broad coalition of national governments, civil society groups, and development agencies...

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Where Health and Education Meet, Children Win

Every mom wants a healthy baby. And in the early days of a child’s life, parents and doctors understandably focus on how the baby’s physical development—is she gaining weight? Is he developing reflexes? Are they hitting all of the milestones of a healthy and thriving child? But...

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Leveling the Playing Field from the Start: The Power of Early Childhood Development

Today, I had the pleasure of participating in a keynote discussion at the Education World Forum in London--a large annual gathering of education decisionmakers from around the world. We focused this morning on how to use and translate data generated by education systems...

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Background information on education statistics in the UIS Data Centre

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Background information on education statistics in the UIS Data Centre The following symbols are used: …                   No data...

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