EdQual Working Paper No. 16. The Education Millenium Development Goal Beyond 2015: Prospects for Quality and Learners.

3 CONTENTS 4 Introduction 5 1. The current education MDG 6 1.1 Formulation and implementation of the MDG 6 1.2 Framing and measuring quality in the run-up to 2015 7 1.3 Impact of the MDG on Education Quality 8 2. Education MDG post 2015 8 2.1 The Millennium Learning Goal 9 3. Critique of MLG 14 3.1 Technicist view of education 15 3.2 Out-of-school youth are not learning 15 3.3 Standardized tests are assumed to measure learning 16 3.4 Relationship between learning outcomes and economic wealth ignored 17 3.5 MDG with quality should be replaced by a MLG 18 3.6 Quality is about processes as well as outcomes 18 Conclusion 19 References 20

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