The article investigates the roles of childhood circumstances (including parental socio-economic status, parental education, parental engagement, and sibling composition) and schooling on adult reading skills in low- and middle-income countries. Using regression models and data from surveys of urban labor-force participants in Armenia, Bolivia,…

Recent research from high-income countries and dated research from middle-income countries suggest that home computers and Internet (HCI) may cause more harm than good on students' academic and psychological outcomes. We consider the Program for International Student Assessment 2018 data for 15-year-old students in five middle-income countries…

This article is the fourth in a series arguing that there is serious mismeasurement of enrolment in early childhood development (ECD) and in the early grades of education systems in many countries, especially, and most damagingly, in those making the most progress on access to schooling and in the sustainable development goals. Other reports have…

The outbreak of COVID-19 worldwide has presented an unprecedented challenge for the equity-in-education agenda, especially in developing countries of the Global South (e.g., the English-speaking Caribbean). This article examines the impact school closures have had in Jamaica and Barbados, and highlights the emerging disparities the global pandemic…

Training and education hold an important place in a development strategy that attempts to bring past experience to bear on planning for the future economic and social health of developing nations. (JH)

The role of aid in the educational development of developing nations prescribed by the broader national development goals, the realities of the social and cultural heritage, and the material constraints imposed by the country's resource, is restricted to the modest parameters of the desirable and the possible. (Author/JH)

The Proceedings of a seminar devoted to discussion of Third World education policies and the impact of cooperation and aid from other countries on those policies are presented to promote rejoinder and counterproposals to the approaches taken by the cooperating and aiding countries, attending the seminar. (JH)

Swedish aid programs and policies for educational development, most often carried out through international organizations, are discussed in terms of Third World priorities and a concept of Education conditioned by society. (JH)

This article deals with education aid and the need for re-evaluation of needs for educational advance, the unique contribution made by the United Nations as an international organization, and the effectiveness of its machinery to assure the coherence of contributions to educational development. (JH)

To achieve a synthesis of ancient and modern societies, it is the woman's responsibility in the home and within the family to teach children traditional values, etc. (Author/ND)

One of a series of papers commenting on the report, Learning to be,'' submitted to Unesco by the Commission, which clarifies the educational crisis in countries of the Third World and calls for change in educational policy. (JB)

This article emphasizes that the report of the Commission states that the demand for education today is so great that present institutionalized systems are and will be in the future incapable of absorbing it. (JB)