TY - BOOK AU - Kim,Jim Yong AU - Kim,Jim Yong TI - The New Horizon in Education: From Access to Quality T2 - Speeches of World Bank Presidents PY - 2015/// CY - Washington, D.C. PB - The World Bank KW - Access & Equity in Basic Education KW - Access to Education KW - Children KW - Developing Countries KW - Education KW - Education For All KW - Gender KW - Human Capital KW - Literacy KW - Primary Education KW - Schools KW - Teachers KW - Universal Primary Education KW - Women KW - Workers N2 - Remarks delivered by Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group, discuss equity and learning in education that should be integral to our final push to end extreme poverty by 2030. He speaks about education that also raises productivity in the informal sector and is associated with better health and resilience. He talks about educated women and girls who can be particularly effective agents of socio-economic change. He also talks about the need for development financing and technical expertise to effect radical change in the quality of labor. He highlights about technology that can be used to leapfrog current practices, plugging isolated teachers and students into connected classrooms of the twenty first century. He concludes by saying that education is a public good and a fundamental right is essential to end extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity UR - http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/24305 ER -