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	<title>Global Development: Views from the Center » Education</title>
	
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	<description>Global Development: Views from the Center features posts from Nancy Birdsall and her colleagues at the Center for Global Development about innovative, practical policy responses to poverty and inequality in an ever-more globalized world.</description>
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		<title>Take Learning Out of the Schoolroom?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/02/take-learning-out-of-the-schoolroom.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:53:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Kenny</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=8058</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Charles Kenny - The gap between schooling and learning is under the spotlight of late –and a new book by CGD’s own Lant Pritchett (draft chapters available here) is sure to increase the wattage.  The story that Lant has to tell is not the happiest –widespread evidence from across the developing world that many kids who sit in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In School Not Learning</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2011/07/in-school-not-learning.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2011/07/in-school-not-learning.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 19:45:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Owen Barder</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Development]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=6308</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Owen Barder - This post originally appeared on Owen Abroad. George Bush famously asked, ‘Is our children learning?’. That’s also the question by Uwezo, a coalition of NGOs working in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.  Their report published today makes dismal reading about the quality of schools. First, a word about the report.  This is not a study by the World [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Putting the ‘Fast’ Back into the Education Fast Track…</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2010/02/putting-the-%e2%80%98fast%e2%80%99-back-into-the-education-fast-track%e2%80%a6.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2010/02/putting-the-%e2%80%98fast%e2%80%99-back-into-the-education-fast-track%e2%80%a6.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:43:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Desmond Bermingham</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fast track Initiative]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=3344</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Desmond Bermingham - 2010 is supposed to be the ‘Year of Education’. The Global Campaign for Education and the 1-Goal Campaign are lobbying soccer supporters around the world to sign a petition pressuring government leaders to provide a good quality education to all children and adults by 2015. Stars and international leaders have already committed themselves to joining [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Linking Aid to Results: Why Are Some Development Workers Anxious? (Guest post by Owen Barder)</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2009/12/linking-aid-to-results-why-are-some-development-workers-anxious.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2009/12/linking-aid-to-results-why-are-some-development-workers-anxious.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:29:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Birdsall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aid Effectiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cash on Delivery Aid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evaluation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Aid Reform]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=2581</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Nancy Birdsall - I am pleased to share with our readers at Owen’s request this discussion of Cash on Delivery Aid, which appeared yesterday on his blog, Owen Abroad. Linking Aid to Results: Why Are Some Development Workers Anxious? By Owen Barder The Center for Global Development is working on an idea which they call Cash on Delivery [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Illusion of Equality</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2009/09/the-illusion-of-equality.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2009/09/the-illusion-of-equality.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:08:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lant Pritchett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evaluation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inequality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[centralization]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=2019</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Lant Pritchett - CGD recently posted my working paper, The Illusion of Equality, co-authored by Martina Viarengo. The motivations behind the paper go back to when I was a kid. When people were coming to our house, my mother would put us five children to work trying to clean up because “company” was coming. And when company was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>G8 in Italy Should Launch Global Fund for Education</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2009/07/g8-in-italy-should-launch-global-fund-for-education.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2009/07/g8-in-italy-should-launch-global-fund-for-education.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:36:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Desmond Bermingham</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Security and Development]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=1505</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Desmond Bermingham - This post also appeared on the Huffington Post on July 7, 2009. Leaders of the worlds’ eight richest countries gather this week in Italy for the annual G8 summit. Crowding their agenda will be the financial crisis, climate change, and food security. Education should be high on the agenda, too. Others agree with me: three [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Goal: Education And…Football for All?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2009/06/one-goal-education-and%e2%80%a6football-for-all.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2009/06/one-goal-education-and%e2%80%a6football-for-all.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:17:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ayah Mahgoub</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aid Effectiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cash on Delivery Aid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fast track Initiative]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=1462</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Ayah Mahgoub - CGD friend Alcyone Vasconcelos, Senior Education Specialist at the Education for All – Fast Tack Initiative (EFA-FTI) (an international partnership of developing country governments and donors to make progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goal of universal primary education by 2015), brought to our attention a very interesting idea: a campaign to support education for [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Accelerating the Education for All—Fast Track Initiative</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2009/04/accelerating-the-education-for-all%e2%80%94fast-track-initiative.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2009/04/accelerating-the-education-for-all%e2%80%94fast-track-initiative.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:57:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Desmond Bermingham</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Development]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=985</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Desmond Bermingham - Donors, multilateral agencies, recipient countries, and NGOs supporting the Education for All–Fast Track Initiative (FTI) gather in Copenhagen this week for the 2009 FTI Partnership meeting. Participants will consider the preliminary findings of an independent evaluation team and seek solutions to the continuing challenges facing the FTI. The FTI is at a turning point. As [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gordon Brown Calls for America and Britain to Work Together on Global Education</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2009/03/gordon-brown-calls-for-america.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2009/03/gordon-brown-calls-for-america.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 22:03:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Desmond Bermingham</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Bank]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cgdwptemp.forumone.com/?p=619</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Desmond Bermingham - In an address to the U.S. Congress today, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown urged that the United States and United Kingdom work together on global education. And let us not forget the poorest. As we strive to spread the values of peace, political liberty, and the hope for better lives across the world, perhaps the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Open Letter to President Bush on the UN Education Fast Track Initiative and the U.S. Millennium Challenge Account</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2005/01/an-open-letter-to-president-bush-on-the-un-education-fast-track-initiative-and-the-u-s-millennium-challenge-account.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2005/01/an-open-letter-to-president-bush-on-the-un-education-fast-track-initiative-and-the-u-s-millennium-challenge-account.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jan 2005 18:55:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Birdsall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advocacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Aid Reform]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Global Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fast track Initiative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Millennium Challenge Account]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=2802</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Nancy Birdsall - Dear President Bush: In recent weeks, American schoolchildren, churchgoers, and individual citizens have shown their remarkable empathy for victims of the Asian tsunami. That empathy combined with the wish to promote global security in an increasingly interdependent world explain the solid political support for your leadership in financing the global effort to combat AIDS and [...]]]></description>
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