{"id":1139,"date":"2009-09-02T06:56:55","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T10:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/?p=1139"},"modified":"2009-09-02T06:56:55","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T10:56:55","slug":"long-term-challenges-in-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2009\/09\/02\/long-term-challenges-in-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Long-term challenges in education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mitchell Charity<\/strong> recently quoted to me from <strong>Lant Pritchett<\/strong>&#8216;s essay, &#8220;Long-Term Global Challenges in education: Are There Feasible Steps Today?&#8221; &#8211; Ch.3 of RAND&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rand.org\/pubs\/conf_proceedings\/CF267\/\">Shaping Tomorrow Today: Near-Term Steps Towards Long-Term Goals<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A fun quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>So, a key question is, \u201cIs each annual 100 million\u2013strong cohort emerging from completion of basic education adequately equipped for its lifelong participation in the relevant society, polity, and economy?\u201d The answer is, \u201cNo one has the slightest idea.\u201d Really. Not the slightest idea<\/em>[&#8230;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder how RAND chooses the areas it tackles for long-term global planning.\u00a0 How does one go about finding &#8216;documents like this&#8217; (e.g., long-term plans for educational purpose) in a meaningful way?\u00a0 Tony Pryor, call your office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitchell Charity recently quoted to me from Lant Pritchett&#8216;s essay, &#8220;Long-Term Global Challenges in education: Are There Feasible Steps Today?&#8221; &#8211; Ch.3 of RAND&#8217;s Shaping Tomorrow Today: Near-Term Steps Towards Long-Term Goals. A fun quote: So, a key question is, \u201cIs each annual 100 million\u2013strong cohort emerging from completion of basic education adequately equipped for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[210,211,213,1],"tags":[13078,134,13195],"class_list":["post-1139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chain-gang","category-international","category-metrics","category-uncategorized","tag-challenges","tag-education","tag-planning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-in","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1139"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1141,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions\/1141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}