About This Initiative
The Open Society Foundations’ Education Support Program seeks to further education justice by combating inequality and discrimination in education and through exposing the deeper structural inequalities that reproduce educational disadvantage and exclusion.
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Discrimination in Education
The Education Support Program advocates for children’s legal rights while striving to provide governments and educators with the access to professional development and expertise that make inclusion possible.
Critical Thinking and Quality Education
The Critical Thinking Project focuses foremost on the essential transaction of teaching and learning and provides a practical method that empowers teachers to create learning environments which nurture inquiry and active participation in learning.
The Political Economy of Education
Through the Privatization in Education Research Initiative, the Education Support Program is supporting accessible, knowledgeable public debate to better inform decisions by governments, teachers, and parents.
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Remembering Tom Alexander
Hugh McLean January 24, 2012
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Tom Alexander's insistence on linking social justice with quality in education challenged and inspired us all.
Advancing Education Reform with "Writers Bloc"
Kamila Shamsie and Hugh McLean January 13, 2012
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A group of writers including Zadie Smith, Chimamanda Adiche, and Aleksander Hemon take a look at education systems in conflict-affected countries around the world.
The Power of Women in West Africa
Massa S. S. Crayton November 16, 2011
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Women's participation is critical in reconciliation and reconstruction efforts, as the work of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Leymah Gbowee has shown. Yet the immense resources women can bring to peace-building remain largely untapped.
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