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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 and the recommendations of the UN Millennium Task Force Report on Education and Gender Equity.
This past year, the Center launched the Education Partnership for Children of Conflict and delivered new analyses and recommendations on financing education in conflict situations to major G-8 development agencies, the United Nations, and the World Bank at major forums in Cairo, London, and Bonn.
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.
Bloomberg Commentary
Gene Sperling
May 1, 2008
Among the casualties of the food crisis will be the schooling of millions of the world's poorest children. The connection is as simple as a school lunch.
April 8, 2008
Gene Sperling presided at a forum on the state of education for children of Iraq with Safaa el-Kogali of the World Bank, Co-Chair of the Education Partnership for Children of Conflict Angelina Jolie, and International Rescue Committee President George Rupp. The panelists reported that as many as two and a half million Iraqis are internally displaced and another two million have fled to neighboring countries, mainly Jordan and Syria. Half of these latter two million are children, and there is mounting evidence to suggest that they are receiving little or no education.
The Education Partnership for Children of Conflict (EPCC) is co-chaired by Council on Foreign Relations Term Member, Angelina Jolie, and Gene Sperling, Director of the Center for Universal Education. An initiative of the Center for Universal Education, EPCC seeks to raise awareness and support for cutting-edge strategies to educate children in conflict settings.
Today, 72 million children worldwide are denied access to a basic education. In addition, over 226 million youth are denied the opportunity to attend secondary school.
Global Education Action Week was April 20-27, 2008.
Through the Council on Foreign Relations, the Center for Universal Education conducted outreach for a youth training that brought over 50 young students from across the country to Washington, DC to learn about education in developing countries.
For more information on the CUE, contact:
Gene Sperling
Senior Fellow for Economic Studies
Director, Center for Universal Education
+1-202-518-3401
Anda Adams
Associate Director
+1-202-518-3404
Stephen Hendrickson
Assistant to the Director
+1-202-518-3472
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