May 27, 2013
Categories: Competitiveness, Infrastructure, Millennium Development Goals, Report On Education
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April 17, 2013
Categories: Competitiveness, Strategies
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With Tougher Standardized Tests, a Reminder to Breathe – NYTimes.com. At Public School 10 on the edge of Park Slope, Brooklyn, parents begged the principal to postpone the lower school science fair, insisting it was going to add too much pressure while they were preparing their children for the coming state tests. On Staten Island, […]
April 4, 2013
Categories: Competitiveness, Strategies
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What questions about education are relevant to understand the competitive gap between the world and Haiti? Currently the notion of education is stretching with the need of early education and multiple master degrees. How much of this idea is a response to socio economic needs? How much and how are we investing in the quality of education? […]
November 23, 2012
Categories: Competitiveness, Foreign Policy
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The Talent Paradox: Funding Education as a Global Public Good | Brookings Institution. This is not back door privatization of the education system on a global scale. Funding should not be conflated with service delivery. We are advocating an equitable and transparent funding mechanism that has a chance of giving a quality education to all […]
August 16, 2012
Categories: Competitiveness
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the report also urges African governments to draw a sharper distinction between productive foreign investment in agriculture and what Mr. Annan and his co-panelist and celebrity activist, Bob Geldof, described as speculative land grabs. The report warns that failure to prioritize smallholder agriculture will leave millions of Africans trapped in a cycle of poverty and […]