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Children around the world have the right to a quality education. RAND has worked to design and implement comprehensive standards-based education reform in the Middle East and Korea, and continues to conduct research in all areas of international education policy in Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia.

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Cultural Oasis: For Arab Children, Collected Works Offer Roads to Tolerance, Critical Thinking

Article from RAND Review that explores ways to cultivate a well-educated citizenry open to new ideas and capable of challenging the intolerant ideas of others in the Arab world.

May 24, 2016
Journal Article

Journal Article

Academic Civic Mindedness and Model Citizenship in the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme

This study uses interview and survey methods to describe the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme's (DP) development of students' "academic civic mindedness" and "model citizenship" at four public schools in California.

Feb 22, 2016
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Comparing Higher Education Entrance Qualifications and Exams in Europe

The EU considers higher education obliged to help improve the acquisition of skills necessary for economic growth. An analysis of admission systems across ten countries recommends ways to tackle the increasing demand for university education in an era of declining resources.

May 7, 2015
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Report

The African Institutions Initiative: Insights from the First Four Years

This report presents the findings and recommendations from the evaluation of the first four years of the African Institutions Initiative, a Wellcome Trust funded programme to build sustainable health research capacity.

Sep 12, 2014
Journal Article

Journal Article

The International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme in Mexico as Preparation for Higher Education

In this study we analyse the relationship between Mexican students' enrolment in the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme (DP) and their college preparedness using a case-study methodology.

Jan 1, 2014
Research Brief

Linking Funding and Quality to Improve Higher Education in India

RAND researchers developed a course of action to help India implement policies and reforms that link higher education quality to funding to increase accountability, encourage greater innovation, and contribute to national goals.

Jul 23, 2013
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Linking Funding and Quality to Improve Higher Education in India

India's higher education system faces challenges from underprepared faculty, unwieldy governance, and other obstacles to innovation and improvement. Instituting policies that link funding to quality could hold schools accountable for their performance, encourage greater innovation, and further the nation's education goals.

Jul 23, 2013
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Report

Sustaining the Qatar National Research Fund

An examination of what must be done to ensure sustainability of the Qatar National Research Fund, its achievements in its first five years, and recommendations for actions to respond to the new responsibilities mandated in Decree-Law (24) of 2008.

Aug 22, 2012
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Launching the Qatar National Research Fund

The design and implementation of the Qatar National Research Fund — the first research — funding organization of its kind in the Middle East—and descriptions of its first two programs, along with some early results and lessons learned.

Aug 21, 2012
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Identifying Arabic-Language Materials for Children That Promote Tolerance and Critical Thinking

A focus on children, whose ideas are still being developed, may be more effective in promoting tolerance and critical thinking in the Arabic–speaking world than efforts directed toward adults, whose attitudes are already established.

Mar 22, 2011
Journal Article

Journal Article

Early Academic Performance, Grade Repetition, and School Attainment in Senegal: A Panel Data Analysis

This study takes advantage of a unique data set from Senegal that combines test score data for children from the second grade with information on their subsequent school progression from a follow-up survey conducted seven years later.

Jan 1, 2010
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Barriers to the Broad Dissemination of Creative Works in the Arab World

Many analysts have examined the media that violent extremists use to communicate their core messages. Far less research, however, has been devoted to the growing body of creative works produced by Arab authors and artists that counter the intellectual and ideological underpinnings of violent extremism.

Sep 4, 2009
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Independent Schools Adopted New Curricula and Teaching Methods Early in Qatar's Education Reform

As Qatar reformed its education system from 2005 to 2007, teachers at new independent schools worked together to develop curricular contents that addressed new international curriculum standards in key subjects, applied significantly more student-centered teaching methods and provided more challenging learning environments.

Aug 25, 2009
Research Brief

Research Brief

Qatar's K-12 Education Reform Has Achieved Success in Its Early Years

Describes RAND's evaluation of the progress made in the first years of Qatar's K-12 education reform.

Aug 25, 2009
Research Brief

Research Brief

Qatar's K-12 Education Reform Has Achieved Success in Its Early Years (Arabic version)

Describes RAND's evaluation of the progress made in the first years of Qatar's K-12 education reform.

Aug 25, 2009
Research Brief

Lessons Learned from Developing and Implementing the Qatar Student Assessment System (Arabic version)

Researchers summarize the development of a standards-based student assessment system in Qatar, lessons for policymakers in Qatar and elsewhere, and challenges in aligning the assessment with future changes in the curriculum standards.

Jul 29, 2009
Research Brief

Lessons Learned from Developing and Implementing the Qatar Student Assessment System

Researchers summarize the development of a standards-based student assessment system in Qatar, lessons for policymakers in Qatar and elsewhere, and challenges in aligning the assessment with future changes in the curriculum standards.

Jul 1, 2009
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Report

Lessons from the Field: Developing and Implementing the Qatar Student Assessment System, 2002-2006

This report recounts the development of Qatar's internationally benchmarked standards-based assessment system, providing important lessons learned for Qatar and other countries that are seeking to implement standards-based educational reforms.

Mar 17, 2009
Journal Article

Journal Article

Cognitive Skills Among Children in Senegal: Disentangling the Roles of Schooling and Family Background

The authors use unique data to estimate the determinants of cognitive ability among 14-17-year olds in Senegal. Closing the schooling gaps between poor and wealthy children will also close most of the gap in cognitive skills between these groups.

Jan 1, 2009
Research Brief

Research Brief

Improving Early Childhood Education in Central and Eastern Europe Step by Step

Summarizes the capacity, reach, and sustainability of the Step by Step (SbS) Program, child-centered teaching strategies and parent and community involvement in early childhood education systems in former Soviet bloc countries.

Oct 26, 2008

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RAND Topic:
International Education

Topic Synonyms:
Global Education

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