Harvard Education Press

International Education for the Millennium
Toward Access, Equity, and Quality

Edited by Benjamin Piper, Sarah-Dryden-Peterson, and Young-Suk Kim

International Education has become an increasingly prominent and urgent matter in recent decades. Since the 1990 and 2000 Education for All conferences in Thailand, and Senegal, educational access and quality have been important parts of a global development agenda. More recently, theUnited Nations Millennium Development Goals have called for dramatic increases in educational access and ensuring equity for those disadvantaged by national and regional power structures.

International Education for the Millennium offers a detailed and comprehensive look at this vitally important field. Centrally concerned with the development of successful education systems and institutions throughout the world, the volume addresses those pressing questions—about access, equity, and quality—that inform the field today. The volume sheds light on important areas within this vast field: on contemporary theoretical work and research; on a range of national and international policies; and on education reform in developing countries.

A volume that considers international education on the global, national, and local levels—and that addresses theoretical, scholarly, and practical matters—International Education for the Millennium offers an impressive array of ideas, perspectives, and resources for scholars, policymakers, and practitioners.

Contributors:

Kim Bush, Paulo Freire, Jesus Gomez Alonso, Jonathan David Jansen, Margrethe Juncker, Suzanne Grant Lewis, Marlaine E. Lockheed, Richard Maclure, Khalil Mahshi, Joanita Nambi, Julius K. Nyerere, Fernando Reimers, Asgedet Stefanos, Nelly P. Stromquist, Stella Alamo Talisuna, Liliana Vaccaro, Julio Vargas Claveria, Frances Vavrus

About the Editors:

Sarah Dryden-Peterson is an advanced doctoral student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) and a research associate of the Refugee Law Project in Kampala, Uganda. She founded The Idea Truck, a mobile teacher resource center and library for students in South Africa, and directs a nonprofit that seeks to combine research, advocacy, and action in educational change in Africa. Dryden-Peterson was a Fulbright Scholar in Uganda; she is now a Presidential Fellow at Harvard and her research is funded by the Mellon Foundation.

Young-Suk Kim is a doctoral candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her primary research focus is on the relationship between children's language development and literacy development for Korean and English monolingual and bilingual students. Kim is a recipient of the Spencer Research Training Grant, and her research has been funded by the HGSE Dean's Award and a National Science Foundation Dissertation Grant.

Benjamin Piper is an advanced doctoral student studying educational development in sub-Saharan Africa at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Piper's current research focuses on the impact of in-service teacher education programs in sub-Saharan Africa on learner-centered instruction and student achievement. His research has been funded by the HGSE Dean's Award, the Harvey Fellowship, and the NAACP. He is currently a cochair of the Harvard Educational Review Editorial Board.