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- Read: Opposing viewpoints in the debate:
- Justin Sandefur (Center for Global Development): http://www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=11047 [pro-privates]
- Kevin Watkins (Brookings Institution): http://www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=11064 [pro-publics] §
- Read: Oxfam, “Resourcing Global Education” http://www.oxfam.org/sites/www.oxfam.org/files/resourcing-global-education.pdf. This document expands on the pro-publics position. The good people at Oxfam make the case for increased levels of bilateral assistance by the U.S. and other rich countries to poor countries in order to build schools, train teachers, and provide school supplies. They would also support the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), one of which is to achieve universal primary education. To help poor countries make progress toward this goal, Oxfam advocates for the financing of the Fast Track Initiative (FTI), which, since 2002, has contributed hundreds of millions of dollars to an educational fund serving the poorest of the poor worldwide.
- View: James Tooley on Stossel. http://www.cato.org/multimedia/video-highlights/james-tooley-discusses-private-education-poor-countries-fbns-stossel [7 min.]
- View: “The Education Divide in Hyderabad”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olGE0QeHiG8 [4:15]
- View: Pauline Dixon, “How slum schools are serving the poorest”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzv4nBoXoZc [15:30]
- Read: James Tooley. (2009). The beautiful tree: A personal journey into how the world's poorest people are educating themselves. Washington, D.C.: Cato Institute. http://www.cato.org/store/books/beautiful-tree-personal-journey-how-worlds-poorest-people-are-educating-themselves-hardback This is the core text for the course and should be read in its entirety. Tooley is a great storyteller, descriptively chronicling his own “journey” to social worlds where he documents private forms of schooling serving slum dwellers and rural poor.
- Naother resrouce on the gals of educaiton in the US. From Vocational Education to Career Readiness The Ongoing Work of Linking Education and the Labor Market Shaun M. Dougherty, Allison R. Lombardi First Published December 22, 2016
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