Previous article FreeContributorsPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreFIDA ADELY ([email protected]) is an associate professor at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University, and the Clovis and Hala Salaam Maksoud Chair in Arab Studies. Her research focuses on education, labor, and gender in the Arab world. She is the author of Gendered Paradoxes: Educating Jordanian Women in Nation, Faith & Progress.A. KAYUM AHMED ([email protected]) is a PhD candidate at Teachers College, Columbia University, and teaches as an adjunct at Columbia Law School. His research focuses on black radical student movements and decoloniality. Recent publications have appeared in the Human Rights Law Review, Comparative International Higher Education Journal, and Prospects.TSUYOSHI FUKAO ([email protected]) is senior education specialist with the World Bank Group. Currently he leads education operations and World Bank–financed research in Afghanistan. From 2010 to 2015, he was based in Phnom Penh to manage and support education projects and research in Cambodia, Myanmar, and Lao PDR.FERNANDA GANDARA ([email protected]) is a measurement and evaluation specialist at School-to-School International. She holds a doctorate in psychometric methods, educational statistics, and research methods from University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research is oriented toward the improvement of assessment practices in international education, with a major focus on assessment practices that affect linguistic minorities.ANGELA HADDAD ([email protected]) is a second-year PhD candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature at New York University, where she works on South-South literary relations between the Arab world and Latin America. She received her MA from Georgetown University and her BA from the University of Michigan.ABDEL HAKIM AL-HUSBAN ([email protected]) received his PhD in 1997 from the University of Bordeaux II (in France) in social anthropology. He teaches cultural anthropology at Yarmouk University in the city of Irbid-Jordan. Prof. Al-Husban has participated and led many field projects dealing with different aspects of anthropology in Jordan including the sociodynamics of knowledge production in Jordanian society.AFAF AL-KHOSHMAN ([email protected]) is a PhD student in the Department of Anthropology and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, where her work is focused on education in local communities in Jordan. Afaf also has a master’s degree in Arab studies from Georgetown University and a master’s degree in translation from the University of Jordan.JON LAUGLO ([email protected]) is professor emeritus of education at Oslo University. His research themes include adolescents’ expectation of higher education, youth from immigrant homes, civic engagement, social capital, vocational education policies, private schools, adult literacy, and decentralization. He has held earlier affiliations with the World Bank, NOVA and NIFU institutes, Norwegian Science and Technology University, Norwegian Research Council, and London Institute of Education.FENGSHU LIU ([email protected]) is professor of education at Oslo University. Her research interests are youth and internet, China’s only-child generation, intergenerational change, gender and education, university students, rural youth, Confucian self-cultivation, and Other-sex relations in three Chinese generations. Her publications include her book Urban Youth in China: Modernity, the Internet and the Self. Her current manuscript in progress “Three Generations of Young Men and Women in China” compares Chinese and Norwegian upper secondary students.JEFFERY H. MARSHALL ([email protected]) is an independent consultant based in Vientiane, Lao PDR. He works as a researcher and technical adviser in the areas of school and teacher quality, program evaluation, decentralization, Out-of-School Children (OOSC), and student assessment.JENNIFER RANDALL ([email protected]edu) is an associate professor in the Research, Educational Measurement, and Psychometrics Program (REMP) at the University of Massachusetts. Dr. Randall is especially interested in the ways in which assessments (both large-scale and classroom-based) take into consideration, and affect, historically marginalized populations in the US and abroad.S. GARNETT RUSSELL ([email protected]) is an assistant professor of international and comparative education at Teachers College, Columbia University, and the director of the George Clement Bond Center for African Education. Her research focuses on citizenship and human rights in postconflict contexts. Recent publications have appeared in Comparative Education Review, Gender and Society, and International Studies Quarterly.SANDRA L. SIROTA ([email protected]) is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Connecticut and an adjunct assistant professor at Columbia University. She holds a doctor of education from Columbia University. Her research focuses on human rights and social justice education. Recent publications have appeared in the Journal of Human Rights and Prospects.WILLIAM C. SMITH ([email protected]) is a teaching fellow at the University of Edinburgh and former senior policy analyst at UNESCO’s Global Education Monitoring Report. His research explores the relationships between teachers, testing, and accountability, which includes his edited book The Global Testing Culture: Shaping Education Policy, Perceptions, and Practice. 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