Universal Basic Skills [electronic resource]: What Countries Stand to Gain /
Hanushek, Eric A.(Eric Alan),1943-author.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and DevelopmentContent Provider
Organisation for Economic Co operation and DevelopmentContent Provider
Hanushek, Eric A..
Woessmann, Ludger.
Paris : OECD Publishing,
2015.
While access to schooling has expanded around the world, many countries have not realised the hoped-for improvements in economic and social well-being. Access to education by itself is an incomplete goal for development; many students leave the education system without basic proficiency in literacy and numeracy. As the world coalesces around new sustainable development targets towards 2030, the focus in education is shifting towards access and quality. Using projections based on data from the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and other international student assessments, this report offers a glimpse of the stunning economic and social benefits that all countries, regardless of their national wealth, stand to gain if they ensure that every child not only has access to education but, through that education, acquires at least the baseline level of skills needed to participate fully in society.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
What achieving universal basic skills means for the economy and for education -- Sharing the benefits of universal basic skills -- Distance from the goal of basic skills for all -- The goal: Every young person acquires basic skills -- Economic impacts of achieving the basic skills goal by 2030 -- The case for promoting universal basic skills -- Relationship between skills and economic growth -- Foreword -- Executive summary -- Editorial -- Augmented neoclassical results -- Distribution of skills when goal of universal basic skills is achieved -- Sample of PISA questions requiring Level 1 skills -- Review of knowledge capital and growth -- Transforming performance in TIMSS onto the PISA scale.
While access to schooling has expanded around the world, many countries have not realised the hoped-for improvements in economic and social well-being. Access to education by itself is an incomplete goal for development; many students leave the education system without basic proficiency in literacy and numeracy. As the world coalesces around new sustainable development targets towards 2030, the focus in education is shifting towards access and quality. Using projections based on data from the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and other international student assessments, this report offers a glimpse of the stunning economic and social benefits that all countries, regardless of their national wealth, stand to gain if they ensure that every child not only has access to education but, through that education, acquires at least the baseline level of skills needed to participate fully in society.
Education
Education and state
Economic development
Education, Special Topics
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