, economics, and the environment within the halls of global conferences, on the streets during antiglobalization protests, and in …

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 … of Arts and Sciences), leading experts consider the challenges of achieving universal basic and secondary education …

tools of economics to assess the outcome of efforts to solve education's equal opportunity problem in a range of countries … between education and parental income, the problematic past research on peer effects, tracking, the distribution of … suggests that achieving universal primary and secondary education is both urgently needed and feasible. Will the international …

in computing to diverge from boys'; the second section, on higher education, includes a nationwide study of computing … programs and a cross-national comparison of computing education; the final section, on pathways into the IT workforce …