Subject(s): Improving education -- Global Education -- Educational equalization -- Educational Policy & Reform -- Way forward for universal education, universal basic and secondary education -- Basic facts and data : Measuring global educational progress -- Historical legacies, political obstacles : Lessons from past- comparative socio- historical analysis of primary and secondary education, political obstacles to expanding and improving schooling in developing countries -- Improving education : Using assessment to improve education in developing nations, evaluating educational intervention in developing countries, expanding educational opportunity on a budget -- Costs : Attaining universal primary schooling by 2015, cost of providing universal secondary education in developing countries -- Consequence : Global educational expansion and socio economic development- assessment of findings from social science, education, health and development