Barron's Guide to the Most Competitive Colleges

The nation's most academically competitive four-year colleges receive detailed descriptions and appraisals in this updated book, each entry written by a recent graduate of the school. Here are insights that simply aren't available in ordinary college directories, including insiders' assessments of campus environment, social life, and nearby off-campus activities that are...

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Approaches, actors and instruments

In the Action Plan of Dakar and the Millennium Declaration, the international community pledged to enable all children, by 2015, to receive a formal basic education. Basic education comprises early childhood learning, primary school education, secondary school education and the extracurricular (non-formal) acquisition of basic knowledge and life skills. In the Ac­tion...

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Prominent Education-Mahatma Gandhi on education

Mahatma Gandhi on education. His critique of western, particularly English, education was part of his critique of Western ‘civilization’ as a whole. Barry Burke explores his vision. The real difficulty is that people have no idea of what education truly is. We assess the value of education in the same manner as we assess the value of land or of shares in the stock-exchange...

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Famous People in Education

BIOGRAPHY Malala Yousafzai CHILDREN'S ACTIVIST, WOMEN'S RIGHTS ACTIVIST   (1997–) BIOGRAPHY Bill Gates BUSINESS LEADER, ENTREPRENEUR, PHILANTHROPIST   (1955–) BIOGRAPHY LeVar Burton ACTOR, DIRECTOR, TELEVISION PRODUCER, TELEVISION PERSONALITY   (1957–) BIOGRAPHY Peter Singer ACADEMIC, PHILOSOPHER, ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVIST, ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVIST, ANTI-WAR ACTIVIST, CHILDREN'S...

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