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Students in poor communities throughout the world deserve the same access to educational resources as their peers in wealthier communities. Here are some pioneers who sought to empower the marginalized through education: 1. Paulo Freire. Image: Wikicommons: Slobodan Dimitrov
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Nov 22, 2016 · In this article, I consider how Lessing’s critique of formal education was combined, in a much later novel, with a more optimistic view of the alternatives. Freire’s work is useful as context. However, Idries Shah’s Sufi teaching was a more direct influence on Lessing’s later pedagogy.
- Tom Sperlinger
- 2017
First explored here is the way that globalization can be seen to impact education, as global processes and practices have been observed to influence many educational systems’ policies and structures; values and ideals; pedagogy; curriculum and assessment; as well as broader conceptualizations of teacher and learner, and the good life.
- Bill Gates. Bill Gates may not be an educator himself, but through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, he’s having a pretty big impact on schools around the nation.
- E. D. Hirsch, Jr. One of the biggest talking points in education reform over the past few years has been the Common Core curriculum that will be adopted by most U.S. states by 2015.
- Diane Ravitch. Diane Ravitch has held key positions in education under two U.S. presidents, helping build a decade’s worth of educational policy and assessments.
- Cami Anderson. Cami Anderson become superintendent of the Newark school system in 2011, which despite spending an astronomical $25,000 per student is largely failing due to poor graduation rates and test scores.
Nov 6, 2023 · The enormous discrepancy in access to education between countries is a major contributor to global inequality, as argued by Stilwell (2019), Blanden, Doepke, and Stuhler (2022) and Blanchard and Rodrik (2023).
Dec 12, 2022 · UNESCO data shows that worldwide, 244 million children and youth are out of school. There is a crisis in foundational learning, literacy and numeracy skills among young learners. It is estimated that 60% of children globally are unable to read and understand a simple text by the age of ten.
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May 28, 2023 · Schooling today helps people develop the skills they need for daily living. It is also vital for learning social norms and developing sound reasoning and judgment. Research has also found that education plays an essential role in eradicating poverty and hunger, allowing people a chance at better living.
