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The Center for Universal Education
Founded in 2002 by Gene Sperling, the Center for Universal Education (CUE) is the first center at a major think tank focusing exclusively on the provision of quality, universal basic education among the world's poorest children.
The center's analyses and recommendations have been instrumental in the development of a global architecture for universal education. Sperling and the center's recommendations have been particularly influential in the development of the bipartisan Education for All Act of 2007, the strengthening of the Education for All Fast Track Initiative (FTI), the UK's major expansion of basic education funding under Gordon Brown's leadership, the recommendations of the UN Millennium Task Force Report on Education and Gender Equity, and strengthening the overall global aid architecture for education.
The center also works closely with the Education Partnership for Children of Conflict (EPCC) to produce policy papers that address the need for innovative, cutting-edge strategies to educate children in conflict settings. Recommendations were presented to major G8 development agencies, UN agencies, and the World Bank at major forums in Cairo, London, Bonn, and Tokyo.
We encourage you to browse our website to learn more about universal education and what we do at the center to ensure that every child has the right to a quality, basic education.
January 2009
In this Center for Universal Education Working Paper, Gene B. Sperling argues that there are important design elements of the existing global education architecture—the Education for All Fast Track Initiative—that reflect a promising model for a coordinated, global effort on education that should be built upon. Yet he also finds that a new Global Education Fund must employ serious reforms and have a major rebranding and relaunching moment by heads of state that mobilizes a greater global commitment to more resources and sound program implementation to make significant steps toward achieving quality universal education for the world’s poorest children.
A Global Education Fund: Toward a True Global Compact on Universal Education
September 26, 2008
September 20, 2008
FT Seasonal Appeal: Report on Zambia
by Caroline Daniel
'What Works in Girls' Education' in Newsweek
Education: It's Not Just About the Boys. Get Girls into School.
The Huffington Post
Gene Sperling
September 8, 2008
As the world celebrates International Literacy Day today, there are few countries being more closely watched than Kenya.
For more information on the CUE, contact:
Anda Adams
Associate Director
+1.202.509.8404
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