Second, it must be recalled that Jomtien did not equate education with formal schooling.
The current testing and accountability regime does nothing to make schooling and education more self-driven or creative.
This month, David Blunkett, the education secretary, took schooling in Hackney, a London borough, out of the hands of the local authority.
Ta-Nehisi Coates has a good post up on reading-for-pleasure vs. forced-reading in the context of schooling and public education.
You can still have 100% public education without 100% public schooling, just like you can have Medicare for all Americans and still not have socialized medicine.
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While public K-12 schools are free and parents sometimes have a choice of where to send their child (including home schooling), education is one product families are required to consume.
Bringing boys and girls together, organizing schooling and health education, providing the tools and the incentive to fight against poverty and disease -- that is the legacy we want to leave.
Whenever you hear a snotty European presenting his stereotypes about Americans, he will often describe them as "unintellectual, " "uneducated, " and "poor in math, " because, unlike European schooling, American education is not based on equation drills and memorization.
Other issues expected to be in the spotlight include climate change and what are expected to be new efforts to curb power-plant emissions, as well as a focus on the "bookends" of education early childhood schooling and college.
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And yet, these same people are terrified of the government paying for education but not actively providing the schooling.
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She reiterated also the need to develop comprehensive sexuality education to make the most of schooling for the health of the whole of society.
It is unlikely that any colonial system, however well intentioned, can set the highest standards in education, and the story of schooling under British rule was one of too little, too late.
Well, if so, then you must keep your brother by providing him with a guaranteed retirement (Social Security), an endless supply of medical care (Medicare, Medicaid, S-CHIP), a roof over his head (public housing), and an education for his kids (public schooling).
The education ministry wants to improve the limited schooling refugee children get, in particular teaching them to speak Thai.
The education minister, Kapil Sibal, has promised an array of improvements, including universal primary education, partly provided for through private schooling.
This includes having an opportunity to interact with other kids in the general education environment and have the least restrictive schooling that also addresses their unique needs.
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In a 2007 survey by the Department of Education, 88% of home-schooling parents said that their local public schools were unsafe, drug-ridden or unwholesome in some way.
"The results here suggest that as a result of attaining more education, parents with higher levels of schooling provide a better childhood experience and home environment and consequently their children do better in school, " said Prof Gregg.
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Researchers at the Centre for the Economics of Education have used data on earnings, social class and education to distinguish the effects of private schooling from other advantages that students at such schools may enjoy (such as having richer, better-educated parents).
And college completion rates are dropping in the US, driven largely by lower quality education in general and the astronomical cost of schooling.
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For those enrolled in secondary education, two courses at this level of schooling are completed in each academic year which corresponds to a period of ten months.
"High school did not become de rigueur until about 30 years ago, " notes Patricia Albjerg Graham, education historian at Harvard University and author of Schooling America: How The Public Schools Meet The Nation's Changing Needs (Oxford University Press, 2005).
According to UNESCO figures, only 6.9% of children complete primary education, and less than 2% finish secondary schooling.
And those years of schooling are not full years: local education officials report that in urban areas in the south an average teacher spends only 110 of the notional 200 days of the academic year actually in the classroom.
"I've been talking about the new Silk Road for years, " says Chu, whose clipped English accent is the legacy of British schooling in colonial Hong Kong and a university education in London.
The wealthiest buy private education, but most people cannot afford to pay twice for schooling.
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Many governments not only expanded access to schooling but also sought to improve the quality of education provision.
In Syria, for example, unemployment among young men with intermediate education (those who started, but did not complete secondary schooling) is 39%.
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Today there is new hope for the three million girls denied their right to schooling and a new chance to ensure the right to education for all.
The BBC's Peter Biles in Johannesburg says that nearly all South African children now enjoy some form of schooling, but there is concern about the standard of education in some quarters.
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