For nearly 20 years, since the 1990 Jomtien Conference, the Academy for Educational Development has been working to expand access to achieve Education for All. As more and more children enroll in school, AED's concern has increasingly turned to the quality of their education. AED's sights are now set on Quality Education for All. This shift in…

The National Summer Learning Association is the only national organization that focuses exclusively on learning during the summer months. It works to ensure that children and youth in high-poverty communities have access to quality summer learning opportunities that support their academic performance and healthy development through hands-on…

Richard Murnane observes that the American ideal of equality of educational opportunity has for years been more the rhetoric than the reality of the nation's political life. Children living in poverty, he notes, tend to be concentrated in low-performing schools staffed by ill-equipped teachers. They are likely to leave school without the skills…