In order to work toward eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, the United Nations Millennium Development Goals significantly include universal primary education, gender equality, and empowering women
In this book, Martin Carnoy explores the surprising success of the Cuban educational system, where the average elementary school student learns much more than her Latin American peers. In developing t
Elementary students from even poor rural areas in Cuba do better in school than middle-class pupils in the rest of Latin America, according to a comparative study by Carnoy (education and economics, S
