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And it identifies strategies forstrengthening the role of education in peace building.The Report includes statistical indicators on all levels of education in morethan 200 countries and territories. It serves as an authoritative referencefor education policy-makers, development specialists, researchers and themedia.March 2011. 430p. Paperback.ISBN: 9789231041914 $50.00The 2010 Global Education Digest focuses specifically on gender and education to mark“Beijing +15” – the 15th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women. Thisedition presents a rich set of cross-nationally comparable data compiled by the UIS aswell as information from household surveys and assessments of learning achievementthat capture the scope of gender disparities across the world.The international community pledged to eliminate gender disparities in all levels ofeducation by 2015 as part of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Yet accordingto the UIS, which is responsible for monitoring the international education targets, 63%of countries (out of 157 with available data) are still faced with gender disparities inprimary and secondary education and these imbalances will probably persist in nearlyhalf of countries in 2015.GLOBAL EDUCATION DIGEST 2010: Comparing Education Statistics Across the World UNESCO INSTITUTE for STATISTICSI N S T I T U T E f o r S TAT I S T IC SU N E S C OSpecial focus on genderGLOBAL EDUCATION DIGEST 2010Comparing Education Statistics Across the WorldGlobal EducationDigest 2010Comparing Education Statisticsacross the WorldUnited Nations Educational, Scientific andCultural OrganizationGlobal Education Digest 2010 focusesspecifically on gender and education to mark“Beijing +15” – the 15th anniversary of theFourth World Conference on Women. Thisedition presents a rich set of cross-nationallycomparable data compiled by the UIS as well as information fromhousehold surveys and assessments of learning achievement that capturethe scope of gender disparities across the world.The Digest presents a wide range of education indicators and data for theschool year ending in 2008 or the latest available year, as well as data for2009 for a small number of countries. It includes data tables from the WorldEducation Indicators program, which are comparable across a group of62 countries, including members of the Organisation for Economic Cooperationand Development (OECD). These indicators can help benchmarkthe performance of national education systems.October 2010. 276p. Paperback.ISBN: 9789291890880 $55.00Indicators of School Crime and Safety 2010National Center for Education StatisticsEnsuring safer schools requires establishing good indicators of the currentstate of school crime and safety across the nation and regularly updatingand monitoring these indicators. This is the aim of Indicators of SchoolCrime and Safety.This report presents the most recent data available on school crime andstudent safety. The indicators in this report are based on informationdrawn from a variety of data sources, including national surveys ofstudents, teachers, and principals. It covers topics such as victimization,teacher injury, bullying, school conditions, fights, weapons, availabilityand student use of drugs and alcohol, and student perceptions of personalsafety at school. Indicators of crime and safety are compared acrossdifferent population subgroups and over time. 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