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Finding Aid |
1998-2010

RGXXI: Workshops on Universal Basic and Secondary Education (UBASE)

ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION


Historical Note

The Workshops on Universal Basic and Secondary Education (UBASE) were officially active from 1999-2010, though exploratory activity began in 1997. The purpose of the effort was to investigate the rationale, the means, and the consequences of providing high-quality primary and secondary education to all the world's children. Co-directors of the project for its duration were Leslie Berlowitz, David Bloom, and Joel Cohen.

While exploratory meetings were held in 1999, in 2001 UBASE received significant funding from the Hewlett Foundation, allowing for workshops to be held from 2002-2005. Two books and eight occasional papers were published as a result. The first book was titled, Educating All Children: A Global Agenda, edited by David Bloom, Joel Cohen, and Martin Malin, published by MIT Press in 2006. The second later book was titled, International Perspectives on the Goals of Universal Basic and Secondary Education, edited by Joel Cohen and Martin Malin, and published by Routledge in 2010. 

Occasional papers are: The Consequences of Global Educational Expansion: Social Science Perspectives (2003); Achieving Universal Basic Secondary Education: How Much Will it Cost (2006); Educating All Children: A Global Agenda (2006); Universal Basic and Secondary Education (2006); Measuring Global Educational Progress (2006); Improving Education Through Assessment, Innovation, and Evaluation (2006); Global Educational Expansion: Historical Legacies and Political Obstacles.

Funding was provided by the Hewlett Foundation and multiple private sources.

Scope and Content

The series is contained within the Çï¿ûÊÓƵ Archives’ Record Group XXI: Çï¿ûÊÓƵ Projects and Programs. This series contains the administrative, meeting, and publication records related to the Workshops on Universal Basic and Secondary Education, more commonly known as UBASE, from 1997-2010, the majority created between 2001-2007 by Project Directors David Bloom and Joel Cohen, and the executive office of Leslie Berlowitz. Included among administrative records are general correspondence, financial records, records related to grant activity, including finance. Included among project records are planning files, agendas, draft papers, and participant correspondence. Included among publication records are draft papers prepared for publication as a result of the workshops, author correspondence, and publisher contracts and correspondence.
Executive office files of Leslie Berlowitz related to UBASE are not included in this inventory as LCB Executive Office files related to programs were not held as central files.

Arrangement

Processing for the series utilized MPLP principles, thus minimum preservation steps were taken, and folder titles listed in the finding aid are as they appear on the actual folders. Records of the Workshops on UBASE were created and maintained by the program staff of the Çï¿ûÊÓƵ, including Martin Malin, Alice Noble, and Katie Donnelly. Original order of the records was generally maintained in groups of records, with individual records sorted chronologically and interfiled where appropriate. 

This group of records is organized into three subseries: Subseries 1: Administrative Records, Subseries 2: Meetings, and Subseries 3: Publication. 

Subseries 1 and 3 are arranged chronologically.

Subseries 2 is further divided into twelve sub-subseries chronologically by meeting, each themselves arranged chronologically: Sub-subseries 2.1: Planning Workshop - 2001 May 21-22; Sub-subseries 2.2: The Consequences of UBASE - 2002 March 1; Sub-subseries 2.3: Economic Costs and Returns to Investments in Education - 2002 July 26; Sub-subseries 2.4: Educational Assessment 2002 October 28-29; Sub-subseries 2.5: Educational History 2003 September 6-7; Sub-subseries 2.6: "What Works?" Means and Technologies to Achieve UBASE - 2004 February 1-2; Sub-subseries 2.7: Politics and Obstacles - 2004 February 27; Sub-subseries 2.8: Basic Facts and Data on Education - 2004 March 9-10; Sub-subseries 2.9: [Health] [ca. 2004]; Sub-subseries 2.10: Goals of Education 2004 - May 13; and Sub-subseries 2.11: Costs and Finance of Education - 2004 May 13.

Volume

3 records center cartons (3 linear feet)

Preferred Citation

[Item title, date]. Record Group XXI: Çï¿ûÊÓƵ Projects – Workshops on Universal Basic and Secondary Education (UBASE), 1998-2010. Archives, American Çï¿ûÊÓƵ of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Subjects

Berlowitz, Leslie
Bloom, David E. (David Elliot), 1955-
Cohen, Joel E.
Malin, Martin B.
Hewlett Foundation
Education
Education, Primary
Education, Secondary
Educational equalization
Education--Developing countries
Education--Finance

ITEM LIST


Subseries 1: Administrative Records, 1998-2005

Description: This subseries contains records related to the operation of the UBASE project. It includes correspondence, draft proposals, reports on UBASE activity, and some financials. 

Arrangement: Chronological.

Box 1

Folder 1 WED Feb '98 -> Joel Cohen
Folder 2 WED Comments; people consulted 98-99
Folder 3 WED July 98 to 99
Folder 4 [loose] [UBASE - WED Proposals (and letter to fndns), 1998-2000]
Folder 5 UBASE - WED Proposals (and letter to fndns), 1999-2000
Folder 6 UBASE Financial [1999-2003]
Folder 7 UBASE - Draft Proposals 2000-2001
Folder 8 UBASE - Budget [2001]
Folder 9 UBASE Reports to Donors [2001]
Folder 10 UBASE Gene Sperling [2001]
Folder 11 UBASE People [2001-2003]
Folder 12 UBASE Background Docs. - Misc. [2001-2003]
Folder 13 Misc Conf. Call Notes - UBASE [2001-2004]
Folder 14 UBASE Misc Correspondence [2001-2004]
Folder 15 UBASE Hewlett Foundation [2001-2005]
Folder 16 2002 Hewlett: UBASE - Hewlett Report - July 2002
Folder 17 UBASE Funding [2002]
Folder 18 UBASE Correspondence (Berlowitz) [2002]
Folder 19 UBASE - Globalization & Edu - Gardner [2002]
Folder 20 UBASE Dean Jamison [2002]
Folder 21 UBASE Millenium Dev. Goals Task Force [2002-2003]
Folder 22 UBASE Reports/ Web Release: UBASE Reporting 2002/2003
Folder 23 UBASE - David Bloom [2002-2003]
Folder 24 UBASE Cohen [2002-2003]
Folder 25 UBASE Advisory Committee [2003]
Folder 26 UBASE Public Relations [2003]
Folder 27 UBASE Jim DiFrancesca [2004]

Subseries 2: Meetings 2001-2005

Description: This subseries contains the planning and record of individual project meetings, each focused on a different topic. It includes correspondence, background research, presented papers, and some financials for the meeting.

Arrangement: Further divided into twelve sub-subseries chronologically by meeting, each themselves arranged chronologically: Sub-subseries 2.1: Planning Workshop - 2001 May 21-22; Sub-subseries 2.2: The Consequences of UBASE - 2002 March 1; Sub-subseries 2.3: Economic Costs and Returns to Investments in Education - 2002 July 26; Sub-subseries 2.4: Educational Assessment 2002 October 28-29; Sub-subseries 2.5: Educational History 2003 September 6-7; Sub-subseries 2.6: "What Works?" Means and Technologies to Achieve UBASE - 2004 February 1-2; Sub-subseries 2.7: Politics and Obstacles - 2004 February 27; Sub-subseries 2.8: Basic Facts and Data on Education - 2004 March 9-10; Sub-subseries 2.9: [Health] [ca. 2004]; Sub-subseries 2.10: Goals of Education 2004 - May 13; and Sub-subseries 2.11: Costs and Finance of Education - 2004 May 13.

Sub-subseries 2.1: Planning Workshop - 2001 May 21-22

Box 1 (cont.)

Folder 28 UBASE Meetings: UBASE (May 21-22 2001)
Folder 29 UBASE May 2001 Planning Workshop 

Sub-subseries 2.2: The Intellectual and Programmatic History of UBASE - 2001 September 1-2

Box 1 (cont.)

Folder 30 UBASE Meetings: UBASE - Lagemann Meeting - Sept 2, '01
Folder 31 [UBASE Lagemann research, some correspondence, 2001-2002]
Folder 32 [loose] [UBASE background research articles - Lagemann] [nd] [folder 1 of 2]
Folder 33 [loose] [UBASE background research articles - Lagemann] [nd] [folder 2 of 2]
Folder 34 Ellen Lagemann [n.d.]

Sub-subseries 2.3: The Consequences of UBASE - 2002 March 1

Box 1 (cont.)

Folder 35 UBASE - March 1, 2002 Consequences Wkshop

Box 2

Folder 1 Consequences: UBASE Consequences - March 1, 2002
Folder 2 AAAS Essay [2001-2002]
Folder 3 UBASE - Hannum & Buchman - Consequences [2001-2004]

 

Sub-subseries 2.4: Economic Costs and Returns to Investments in Education - 2002 July 26

Box 2 (cont.)

Folder 4 UBASE - Costs & Rates of Return Workshop July 26, 2002
Folder 5 UBASE Economics: UBASE - Economic Reforms, July 26, 2002
Folder 6 UBASE - Ramirez Papers [1997, 2002]
Folder 7 UBASE: Financing Education Report [2002]
Folder 8 UBASE Lant Pritchett [2002]
Folder 9 UBASE - Bloom-Canning [2002]
Folder 10 UBASE Binder [n.d]

Sub-subseries 2.5: Educational Assessment - 2002 October 28-29

Box 2 (cont.)

Folder 11 UBASE Assessment: Travel/Reimbursements - UBASE Assessment Workshop, Oct 28-29, 2002
Folder 12 UBASE Assessment: UBASE Assessment Workshop, October 28-29, 2002
Folder 13 UBASE Assessment Workshop October 2002
Folder 14 UBASE Braun-Kanjee [2001-2003]

Sub-subseries 2.6: Educational History - 2003 September 6-7

Box 2 (cont.)

Folder 15 UBASE Benavot & Resnick - Intell & Prog. History [2003]
Folder 16 Intellectual History: UBASE Intell. History Workshop, Sept. 5-7, 2003
Folder 17 UBASE Educational History Workshop Sept 6-7. 2003
Folder 18 [An Intellectual and Programmatic History of UBASE - draft, 2003] [folder 1 of 2]
Folder 19 [An Intellectual and Programmatic History of UBASE - draft, 2003] [folder 1 of 2]

Sub-subseries 2.7: "What Works?" Means and Technologies to Achieve UBASE - 2004 February 1-2

Box 2 (cont.)

Folder 20 UBASE Means & Tech Workshop Feb 1-2, 2004
Folder 21 UBASE: Goals, Means, Politics, Costs: UBASE: Means & Tech. Feb. 1 & Feb. 2 [2003-2004]
Folder 22 UBASE Kremer [2003]
Folder 23 UBASE Bettinger [2003]
Folder 24 UBASE - Litow Drafts [2003-2004]
Folder 25 UBASE Reviews & Litow Correspondence [2002-2004]
Folder 26 UBASE - technology [2004]
Folder 27 Technology - Colin Maclay [ca. 2004]
Folder 28 UBASE Cream Wright [n.d.]

Sub-subseries 2.8: Politics and Obstacles - 2004 February 27

Box 2 (cont.)

Folder 29 UBASE: Goals, Means, Politics, Costs: UBASE: Politics Feb. 26 & Feb. 27 [2003-2004]
Folder 30 UBASE - Corrales [2003]
Folder 31 UBASE - Political Obstacles Workshop Feb 27, 2004

Sub-subseries 2.9: Basic Facts and Data on Education - 2004 March 9-10

Box 2 (cont.)

Folder 32 Basic Facts Articles [1991]
Folder 33 UBASE Basic Facts Background [2002]
Folder 34 UBASE - UNESCO-UIS [2002-2003]
Folder 35 UBASE Basic Facts & Data - Drafts [2003]
Folder 36 UBASE Basic Facts & Data - Workshop March 9-10, 2004
Folder 37 UBASE Facts: UBASE Basic Facts March 9-10th [2004]
Folder 38 UBASE - Basic Facts - Comments on Draft [2004]

Sub-subseries 2.10: [Health] [ca. 2004]

Box 2 (cont.)

Folder 39 UBASE Health - Background - Levine (Robert) [2003]
Folder 40 UBASE Health Levine [2004]

Sub-subseries 2.11: Goals of Education 2004 - May 13

Box 2 (cont.)

Folder 41 UBASE Goals Workshop May 13, 2004
Folder 42 UBASE: Goals, Means, Politics, Costs: May 13: UBASE Goals of Education [2004]

Box 3

Folder 1 UBASE Goals Essays - Drafts [ 2004]
Folder 2 UBASE Goals Charfi - Redissi [2004]
Folder 3 UBASE Goals Background Papers [ca. 2004]
Folder 4 Goals Kai-Ming Cheng [ca. 2004]

Sub-subseries 2.12: Costs and Finance of Education - 2004 May 13

Box 3 (cont.)

Folder 5 UBASE: Goals, Means, Politics, Costs: May 14 UBASE: Costs & Finances [2004]
Folder 6 UBASE - Costs Workshop May 14, 2004
Folder 7 Planning Meeting: Challenge of Implementing UBASE - 2005 October 27
Folder 9 UBASE Meetings: October UBASE Conference [2005]

Subseries 3: Publication, 1999-2007, 2010. n.d.

Description: This subseries contains records related to the various UBASE articles, books, and occasional papers. This includes correspondence, drafts, and a small amount of financials.

Arrangement: Chronological.

Box 3 (cont.)

Folder 10 UBASE Assorted articles [1999, 2004-2005]
Folder 11 UBASE - Paul Glewwe [2001-2004]
Folder 12 UBASE - Publications, Bloom-Cohen Daedalus [2002]
Folder 13 UBASE Author-Publisher Agreements [2005]
Folder 14 UBASE Occ Paper - Means: Bettinger [2005]
Folder 15 UBASE Occ Paper - Means: Braun Kanjee [2005-2006]
Folder 16 UBASE Occ Paper - Means: Kremer [2005-2006]
Folder 17 UBASE - O. Paper - History-Politics: Corrales [2005]
Folder 18 UBASE - O. Paper - History-Politics: Bennavot & Resnik [2005-2006]
Folder 19 UBASE - Occasional Paper - Costs: Binder [2006]
Folder 20 UBASE - Occasional Paper - Costs: Glewwe [2006]
Folder 21 UBASE - Occ Paper - Basic Facts: Bloom [2006]
Folder 22 UBASE Publications: UBASE - Edited Volume - MIT Press, [2006]
Folder 23 UBASE Publications: UBASE (O.P. -> book chapter) [2006]
Folder 24 Goals Volume Author-Publisher agreements [2006]
Folder 25 Requests for UBASE occ. Papers [2006]
Folder 26 Goals Volume - old/incorrect versions [2006]
Folder 27 UBASE Intro -> O.P. [ca. 2006]
Folder 28 "Educating All Children" info [2006]
Folder 29 UBASE volume expenses [2006]
Folder 30 UBASE Edited Volume & Contract - Signed Auth-Pub Agreements [2006]
Folder 31 Ed., Health, & Development -> O.P. [ca. 2007]
Folder 32 UBASE O.P. expenses [2007]
Folder 33 [International Perspectives on the Goals of UBASE - edits - ca. 2010]
Folder 34 UBASE 2 (Gates) [n.d.]