Who decides a country’s educational priorities? What is the effect on students when the market is involved in their schools? Is education a public good or a private service? What constitutes the public good?
These questions and others were the topics of discussion Friday at “Unpacking Education and the Civic Good: The Potential and Role of Education in an Era of Global Markets and Power.” The symposium, hosted by the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Chair in International Education for Development in the International Education Program at George Washington University's Graduate School of Education and Human Development, took place in Duques Hall.