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Direct linkAnne Johnson, Editor; Susana Rodriguez, Editor; Robin Schoen, Editor; Committee on Building Impactful Collaborative Platforms in the Land-Grant System, Contributor; Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources, Contributor; Division on Earth and Life Studies, Contributor; Board on Higher Education and Workforce, Contributor; Policy and Global Affairs, Contributor – National Academies Press, 2025
The public colleges and universities established in 1862, 1890, and 1994 as part of the land-grant system have historically played an important role in bringing the assets of institutions of higher education to bear on the public good. This report describes how the land-grant institutions can increase their collective impact for the public good by…
Descriptors: Institutional Mission, Land Grant Universities, Educational Development, Capacity Building
Griffin, Rosarii, Ed. – Symposium Books, 2012
In the drive to achieve universal primary education as one of the Millennium Development Goals, there is an increasing recognition of the urgency of focusing on teacher education to both meet the demand for more than one million qualified teachers required to achieve this goal within sub-Saharan Africa, as well as to combat the sometimes poor…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Capacity Building, Educational Research
Download full textUnited Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Bangkok (Thailand). Regional Office for Education in Asia and the Pacific. – 1984
The ways in which six developing countries in Asia are dealing with the problem of children dropping out of elementary school are discussed in these essays. One of the persistent problems that has deterred universalization of primary education is the early dropping out of children from schools. Case studies describing the magnitude and causes of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Comparative Education, Developing Nations, Dropout Characteristics
Yee, Albert H., Ed. – 1995
This volume contains 15 papers on higher education in 13 East Asian societies as well as the region as a whole, including analysis of leading issues such as tyranny versus democracy and state-funded versus proprietary higher education. Following an editorial by A. H. Yee, the papers include: "The University of Tokyo: The Graduate School…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Comparative Education, Developing Nations, Educational Change
Wei, Wu, Comp.; And Others – 1987
This publication consists of seven papers on educational reform in China chosen mainly from major Chinese journals of education science. "The Decision on Reforming the Educational System Made by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China," published in May 1985, is a particularly important document concerning the Chinese…
Descriptors: Communism, Educational Change, Educational Development, Educational Innovation
Flaxman, Erwin, Ed. – 1987
For a number of years, the 16 ERIC Clearinghouses have tracked educational issues and trends in their respective special areas of concern. This is the first unified collection of papers resulting from the tracking effort. Each paper contains an analysis of research, practice, and policy in the scope area covered by the authoring Clearinghouse. The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Assessment, Educational Development, Educational Improvement
Online Submission, 2006
The "EFA (Education For All) Global Monitoring Report 2006" estimates that about 100 million children of primary school age, 55 percent of them girls, are not enrolled in primary school. UNESCO Bangkok, the Consortium for Street Children and Childhope Asia initiated the "Promotion of Improved Learning Opportunities for Street…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Modules, Case Studies, Homeless People
