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  2. Education reform - Wikipedia

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    An important member of the American Pragmatist movement, he carried the subordination of knowledge to action into the educational world by arguing for experiential education that would enable children to learn theory and practice simultaneously; a well-known example is the practice of teaching elementary physics and biology to students while ...

  3. Education economics - Wikipedia

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    Education economics or the economics of education is the study of economic issues relating to education, including the demand for education, the financing and provision of education, and the comparative efficiency of various educational programs and policies. From early works on the relationship between schooling and labor market outcomes for ...

  4. Universal Primary Education - Wikipedia

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    Location contributes to a child's lack of access and attendance to primary education.In certain areas of the world, it is more difficult for children to get to school. For example, in high-altitude areas of India, poor weather conditions for more than 7 months of the year make school attendance erratic and force children to remain at home (Postiglione).

  5. Opinion: Public education is the most important ... - AOL

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    It impacts everything from culture to the economy. Yet consistently we have failed to reform public education and provide maximum funding to make it a premier system. The governor promised over ...

  6. 21st century skills - Wikipedia

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    In 2015, after consultations with Charles Fadel (of P21 and the Center for Curriculum Redesign), the World Economic Forum published a report titled "New Vision for Education: Unlocking the Potential of Technology" [45] that focused on the pressing issue of the 21st-century skills gap and ways to address it through technology. In the report ...

  7. Modernization theory - Wikipedia

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    It was their reaction against modernization theory, which held that all societies progress through similar stages of development, that today's underdeveloped areas are thus in a similar situation to that of today's developed areas at some time in the past, and that, therefore, the task of helping the underdeveloped areas out of poverty is to ...

  8. Economic development - Wikipedia

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    For example, health and education improvements have been closely related to economic growth, but the causality with economic development may not be obvious. In any case, it is important to not expect that particular economic development programs be able to fix many problems at once as that would be establishing unsurmountable goals for them ...

  9. An Essential Guide to the Modern Economy for Citizens and ...

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    Jul. 20—(NewsUSA) — "Richard Vague is a rare combination of scholar, practitioner, and communicator. In The Paradox of Debt, he provides an essential guide to the modern economy that can be ...