@article{1385506,
      recid = {1385506},
      author = {Cohen, Joel E. and Bloom, David E. and Malin, Martin B.},
      title = {Educating all children : a global agenda /},
      publisher = {American Academy of Arts and Sciences :},
      address = {Cambridge, Mass. :},
      pages = {1 online resource (xvi, 597 pages) :},
      year = {2006},
      abstract = {Access to education increased enormously in the past  century, and higher proportions of people are completing  primary, secondary, or tertiary education than ever before.  But efforts to universalize the provision of high-quality  schooling face major problems. In Educating All Children  (which grew out of a multidisciplinary project undertaken  by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences), leading  experts consider the challenges of achieving universal  basic and secondary education globally. The contributors  discuss the current state of education and how to measure  global educational progress, the history of compulsory  education, political and financial obstacles to expanding  education, the role of educational assessment and  evaluation in developing countries, cost estimates for  providing universal education (and why they differ so  widely), the potential consequences of expanded global  education, and the relationship between education and  health.The research suggests that achieving universal  primary and secondary education is both urgently needed and  feasible. Will the international community commit the  necessary economic, human, and political resources? The  challenge, say the editors, is "as inspiring and  formidable... as any extraterrestrial adventures--and far  more likely to enrich and improve life on earth."},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1385506},
}