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Quality education is one of the most leveraged investments for catalyzing development, promoting global health and reducing poverty, and universal education is one of the U.N. Millennium Development Goals. Despite significant progress since the goals were created, 132 million children and youth are still out of school today. Experts with the Center for Universal Education, joined by other experts across Brookings, examine the global education architecture, the role of foreign assistance and educational strategies.
A student writes on a blackboard in a classroom at the Loyola Cultural Centre, part of the Centre Esperance Loyola (CEL - Loyola Hope Centre), a West African Jesuit organisation, in Agoe-Nyive, a suburb of Lome (REUTERS/Darrin Zammit Lupi).
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Why Global Education Financing Must Be Part of Europe's Financial Transaction Tax Revenues for Development
May 1, 2013, Sarah O’Hagan and Rebecca Winthrop
Sarah O'Hagan and Rebecca Winthrop discuss the use of Europe's financial transaction tax revenue for development, and argues that the education community should do all it can to ensure that these newly enacted taxes allocate part of their revenues to global education.
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There are a crop of people at the bottom of the barrel still that are not being affected by the progress that’s being made [in the goal of universal access to primary education for all children]. April 22, 2013, Rebecca Winthrop, New York Times
There are a crop of people at the bottom of the barrel still that are not being affected by the progress that’s being made [in the goal of universal access to primary education for all children].
Expert Q & A | Rebecca Winthrop
January 14, 2013, Rebecca Winthrop and Urvashi Sahni
Just as the Taliban scare us [Pakistanis] with terror, we must scare them by making them unable to operate. We must terrorize them by investing more than ever before in educating girls. October 12, 2012, Madiha Afzal , CNN
Just as the Taliban scare us [Pakistanis] with terror, we must scare them by making them unable to operate. We must terrorize them by investing more than ever before in educating girls.
Even if education is interrupted for just a few months, it can be difficult to get children back into schools. Just a daily gathering of teachers and students to read together or discuss the fragile situation around them — this sense of regularity helps. October 5, 2012, Rebecca Winthrop, CNN
Even if education is interrupted for just a few months, it can be difficult to get children back into schools. Just a daily gathering of teachers and students to read together or discuss the fragile situation around them — this sense of regularity helps.
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August 12, 2011, Rebecca Winthrop
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Rebecca Winthrop
Director, Center for Universal Education
Senior Fellow, Global Economy and Development
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Justin W. van Fleet
Nonresident Fellow, Global Economy and Development, Center for Universal Education
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David Gartner
Nonresident Fellow, Global Economy and Development, Development Assistance and Governance Initiative
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