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Cameron, Stuart – Global Partnership for Education, 2023
Many children in GPE partner countries remain out of school or are unable to complete even primary education. This working paper aims to bring attention to the ongoing challenges of reaching universal access to education and completion of at least primary education in many GPE partner countries. [This working paper was written with support and…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Equal Education, Access to Education, Educational Attainment
Jiang, Suhang – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This dissertation explores how country-level cultural values are associated with gender differences in the enrollment in and completion of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC), national achievement in mathematics and science, and students' science achievement. Study 1 explored how gender-equal…
Descriptors: Social Values, Cultural Influences, Cultural Differences, Cross Cultural Studies
Brookings Institution, 2012
Education plays a significant role in development and the dividends that result from investments in education are immeasurable. Quality education generates greater economic growth, creates a lasting impact on public health, and leads to safer more stable societies. Over the past two decades, major progress has been made in providing education to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economic Progress, Equal Education, Global Approach
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Bella, Nicole; Mputu, Hilaire – International Journal on School Disaffection, 2004
Education for All (an international movement of governments, non-governmental organizations, civil society and the media) set objectives in Jomtien (1990) and reaffirmed in Dakar (2000) that, among other things, work towards all children having access to free, compulsory, good quality primary education by 2015. School dropout may hinder the…
Descriptors: Dropouts, School Holding Power, Elementary Education, Illiteracy
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Bella, Nicole; Mputu, Hilaire – International Journal on School Disaffection, 2004
In the second of a two-part series, this paper looks at the global spread of school dropout and at the factors that keep elementary school-aged children outside education. In order to have a more complete picture of the dropout problem, it necessary to take into account pupils who do not continue their education beyond primary education or who…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Elementary Education, Students, Compulsory Education
Caspar, Emma, Ed. – Institute for Research on Poverty, 2008
The purpose of "Focus" is to provide coverage of poverty-related research, events, and issues, and to acquaint a large audience with the work of the Institute for Research on Poverty by means of short essays on selected pieces of research. This issue contains the following articles: (1) The new global labor market (Richard B. Freeman);…
Descriptors: Poverty, Child Welfare, Labor Market, Foreign Countries