Even the head of the Confederation of British Industry recently made the case for arts education, underlining its importance not only for the arts sector, but for business, which today thrives on artistic and adventurous creativity.
The push for gender equality and to empower women has led to about two-thirds of developing countries achieving gender parity in primary education – underlining the fact that the aspiration of eliminating gender disparity in primary and secondary education has not been met.
Jim Donohue, chief product officer at Cengage Learning, which provides tailored digital information services for the higher education sector, underlines the point: "In developing countries, there are better ways to reach learners in places where education is at a premium and there are not many choices…You don't want to have a bunch of third-rate schools".
Meanwhile, 'Back to School', the country's biggest-ever education campaign, underlines the fact that education is being unswervingly endorsed as the engine to drive Angola's long-term recovery.
Results are discussed in terms of historical, socio-economic and political specificity of the French early education context, underlining the need to examine contextual specificity in the study of the impact of quality services for child development.
The British Library's addition to the roster is interesting, being as, although it runs some workshops and training courses, it's not a traditional higher education institution — underlining how MOOCs' campus-less, remotely delivered education model broadens the pool of potential education providers, as well as widening access for students.
Public education campaigns underlined the need for smaller herds.
Such mismatches between the messages conveyed to teachers and the actual performance of education systems underline why it is so important to build student outcomes into the critical path of teacher appraisal instruments.
Percentages in italic denote significant differences between education levels, underlined percentages indicate multivariately significant differences (p < .05, no Bonferoni correction).
That experience was the perfect preparation for reforming American education because it underlines the two traits necessary for academic success: relationships and rigor.
