1. A-801 Section 5 October 10, 2012 Current Global Education Issues

2.  Situating Ourselves in the Course (1 minutes)  Discussion of the readings (15 minutes)  Asia Society Teaching and Leadership for the 21 st Century  UNESCO The Hidden Crisis  Reimers (ed.) Unequal Schools, Unequal Chances  Bilateral Aid (30 minutes)  Logical Framework Problem Tree Analysis (30 minutes)  Housekeeping (5 minutes) Agenda

3. 1 Introduction to Comparative and International Education 2 The Process of Policy Analysis 3 Education Policy Options Course Overview

4. 1 Introduction to Comparative and International Education 2 The Process of Policy Analysis Course Overview –Week 5 – Current Global Education Issues –Week 6 – How Education Policy is Made –Week 4 – Education and Development and Education as a Human Right

5. Summary Teaching and Leadership in the 21 st Century

6. Summary The Hidden Crisis (Ch. 3)

7. Summary Unequal Schools, Unequal Chances

8.  What are the global topics raised in the readings?  What other global topics are not raised in the readings?  How might these readings connect to those from last week? Connecting the Readings to the Theme

9.  USAID (http://www.usaid.gov/who-we-are/usaid-history & http://www.usaid.gov/what-we-do) & MCC (http://www.mcc.gov/pages/about)http://www.usaid.gov/who-we-are/usaid-history http://www.usaid.gov/what-we-dohttp://www.mcc.gov/pages/about  FinnAid (http://formin.finland.fi/public/default.aspx?nodeid=15344& contentlan=2&culture=en-US)http://formin.finland.fi/public/default.aspx?nodeid=15344& contentlan=2&culture=en-US  China (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/aug/14/chin as-foreign-aid-to-africa/ & http://www.guardian.co.uk/global- development/2011/apr/28/china-foreign-aid-policy-report)http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/aug/14/chin as-foreign-aid-to-africa/ http://www.guardian.co.uk/global- development/2011/apr/28/china-foreign-aid-policy-report Bilateral Aid Agencies

10.  What are the stated goals?  What are the implicit goals (if any)?  What are their strategies?  What role are they playing in tackling the current global issues discussed this week? Bilateral Aid Agencies

11. 1.List all the problems that come to mind. Problems need to be carefully identified: they should be existing problems, not possible, imagined or future ones. The problem is an existing negative situation, it is not the absence of a solution. 2.Identify a core problem (this may involve considerable trial and error before settling on one). 3.Determine which problems are “Causes” and which are “Effects.” 4.Arrange in hierarchy both Causes and Effects, i.e., how do the causes relate to each other - which leads to the other, etc. LogFrame Problem Analysis Tree

13. Housekeeping Mid-semester evaluation reminder Late papers/accidentally uploaded drafts Paper return date Reading for Lecture/Section next week (next slide)

14. Lecture and Week 6 Section Please make sure to read your assigned reading closely by Friday (10/12).  Department for International development. Learning for All: DFID’s Education Strategy 2010-2015. UK AID. http://www.ungei.org/resources/files/educ-strat.pdf ARNOT, Tyler AZIZ, Nur CHANDRA, Shivi ------------------- UNHCR. Education Strategy. http://www.unhcr.org/4af7e71d9.html ELIAS GONZALEZ, Alison GROSSMAN-GREENE, Sarah GUARINO, Nicole http://www.ungei.org/resources/files/educ-strat.pdf http://www.unhcr.org/4af7e71d9.html

15. USAID. Education Strategy. http://transition.usaid.gov/our_work/educati on_and_universities/documents/USAID_ED_S trategy_feb2011.pdf SMITH, Daniel TOEGEL, Fabian VAIDHEESH, Sunanda VILLARREAL MURAIRA, Cynthia http://transition.usaid.gov/our_work/educati on_and_universities/documents/USAID_ED_S trategy_feb2011.pdf UNICEF. Education Strategy. http://www.unicef.org/publications/files/All_ Children_Everywhere_EN_072409.pdf HERNDON, Cristina LEE, Jin-Sol LIN, Li SARWAR, Imran http://www.unicef.org/publications/files/All_ Children_Everywhere_EN_072409.pdf Lecture and Week 6 Section