Author Description

Provides a broad-ranging review of education and equity in OECD countries, placing the challenges and policy orientations in their social and economic context. Among the key principles for policy: quality and equity go hand in hand, and need to be addressed through consolidated and integrated policy approaches good practice must be generalized in schools and schooling, especially to places where effectiveness is least in evidence genuinely equal opportunities across different branches and settings of education and training should be encouraged through a range of policies a lifelong approach to learning must accord the highest priority to equality of opportunity within a better resourced, initial education and provide more extensive continuing learning opportunities. Viewed against past trends and recent developments in education and the economy and society, the continued existence of illiteracy is unacceptable.