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SUMMARY:Learning from learning assessments to leave no one behind - Kevin 
 Watkins\, Justin Sandefur\, Ricardo Sabates\, John Jerrim\, Anna Vignoles\
 , Monazza  Aslam\, Nidhi Singal\, Caine Rolleston\, Christopher Colclough\
 , Lucy Lake\, Luning Sun\, Philippa Lei\, Ed Davies\, Mary Metcalfe\, Silv
 ia Montoya\, Pauline Rose.
DTSTART:20160615T083000Z
DTEND:20160615T173000Z
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CONTACT:Diane Caldwell-Hird
DESCRIPTION:Of the world’s 650 million primary school age children\, 250
  million are not learning even basic skills in reading and mathematics. Wo
 rld leaders have committed to overcome this ‘global learning crisis’ b
 y ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education and promoting lifelon
 g learning opportunities for all by 2030 (Education Sustainable Developmen
 t Goal 4). The global goal focus on leaving no one behind is vital\, with 
 some evidence showing that inequalities in learning within countries are w
 ider than inequalities across countries.\n\nThe aims of the conference are
  threefold:\n\n1. to identify lessons for public policy using existing int
 ernational and regional learning assessment data\, with a focus on countri
 es furthest from achieving global goals.\n\n2. to highlight innovations ne
 eded in learning assessment data\, both in relation to the measurement of 
 learning as well as different forms of disadvantage (poverty\, gender\, di
 sability\, language\, and geographic isolation).\n\n3.to promote ways to e
 nsure learning tools and data are publicly available\, enabling researcher
 s to maximise methodological rigour in the use of the data and widen the p
 olicy debate.\n\n*Register for the conference on eventbrite at:\nlearning-
 from-learning-assessments.eventbrite.co.uk*
LOCATION: Donald McIntyre Building\, Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road
 \, Cambridge\, CB2 8PQ\, Room GS4
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