What the United States Needs to Learn from UNESCO

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Heyneman, Stephen P.
Copyright Year	2003
Abstract	The United States of America will soon rejoin the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. There is no question that the United States has much to contribute to UNESCO ‐ the quality of social science investigation, the technologies of educational evaluation, research in the learning sciences, educational technologies, education for the handicapped, comparative education and much research and development in educational policy, higher education, educational leadership and administration. The United States (hereafter US) already learns a great deal from its on-going relationships in the field of education with the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the Asian-Pacific Economic Council (APEC), the World Bank and the regional development banks. But what can it learn from UNESCO and why is membership of UNESCO useful to the United States? There are four reasons why the US needs UNESCO. The first has to do with the demand within the US for innovations in education policy reform and the regular monitoring of educational trends among trading partners who are not already members of the OECD. American school systems are in desperate need of innovation and benchmarking of international trends, and these can only be partly fulfilled through its co-operation with OECD member states. The US has important trading partners outside the OECD membership with whom it needs to
Starting Page	7
Ending Page	10
Page Count	4
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DOI	10.1023/A:1022699928683
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Volume Number	33
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
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Resource Type	Article