How far is the world away from ensuring that every child obtains the basic skills needed to be internationally competitive? And what would accomplishing this mean for world development? Based on the micro data of international and regional achievement tests, we map achievement onto a common...

"This book discusses the internationalized curriculum efforts in higher education and to provide insights about the experiences of instructors who transformed their college classes into internationalized ones (i-courses). It explain the steps taken to internationalize a number of courses from...

Consideration of lifelong learning extends the World Bank's traditional approach to education, in which subsectors are looked at in isolation. Three years ago, when he articulated the Comprehensive Development Framework, World Bank President James Wolfensohn referred explicitly to lifelong...