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Keylor, William R. – History of Education Quarterly, 1981
Reviews the educational reform movement in France during the late nineteenth century which produced one of the most tightly organized, centrally controlled, and pedagogically effective models of elementary education in the world, with emphasis on the role of the Catholic clergy and attempts of the republican regime to uproot clerical influence in…
Descriptors: Catholic Educators, Comparative Education, Compulsory Education, Educational History
Medel-Anonuevo, Carolyn, Ed. – UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (NJ1), 2008
Many European governments associate improving literacy with providing development assistance to regions like Africa and Asia from which the majority of the world's 774 million illiterates come. As school attendance is compulsory in the region, it is assumed that the Education for All (EFA) goals have been achieved and literacy is therefore not…
Descriptors: Attendance, Educational Policy, Social Integration, Adult Education