Education for All: Global Promises, National Challenges

by David P. Baker

Since the World Conference on Education for All (EFA) in Jomtien, Thailand in 1990, the push for modern mass schooling has become a primary focus of national education policymakers and researchers around the world. The EFA declaration that grew out of this conference served as a culmination of a century-long movement to transform existing national educational systems into the most comprehensive mass system of schooling ever devised. Comparative education...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0762314419
• ISBN13: 9780762314416
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Jai Press Inc.
• Length: 568 Pages
• Weight: 2.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.4" x 9.0"