International perspectives on the goals of universal basic and secondary education [Texte imprimé] / edited by Joel E. Cohen and Martin B. Malin

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Goals of universal basic and secondary education / Joel E. Cohen -- Education for all, but for what? / Kai-ming Cheng -- Goals of universal primary and secondary education in the 21st century : reviving the spirit of Socrates / Kishore Mahbubani -- What will be the near-future goals of education? / William K. Cummings -- Quality education : the work of optimists / Beryl Levinger -- Achieving education of high quality in Islamiyya schools of Nigeria / Mallam Bala Ahmed -- Nurturing learning ability : the goals of universal primary and secondary education / Camer Vellani -- Quality, the heart of equity / Vimala Ramachandran -- The dia program : the development of intelligence through art / Claudia Madrazo -- Educational goals : art, science, love, and the importance of binocular vision / Joel E. Cohen -- What does "universal" education mean? / James Carroll -- Teaching tolerance and open-minded approaches to understanding sacred texts / Mohamed Charfi and Hamadi Redissi -- Educating all the people for democratic governance : a U.S. perspective / Deborah Meier -- Educating for global competency / Fernando Reimers -- Education and the globalization paradigm / Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco -- Quality education : a UNESCO perspective / Mary Joy Pigozzi -- The challenge of defining a quality universal education : mapping a common core / Laura Hersh Salganik and Stephen J. Provasnik -- Quality education-what is it and who decides? Briefing paper for a policy maker / George M. Ingram -- Evaluating basic and secondary education / Ana Carolina Letichevsky -- For what should schools be held accountable? / Richard Rothstein and Rebecca Jacobsen