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The UBASE project was led by Joel E. Cohen and David E. Bloom. Martin Malin led the Academy’s staff in support of the project and Leslie Berlowitz’s vision and leadership made the project possible. This essay is based on the introduction to the UBASE project’s volume on the goals of education, and has benefited enormously from the skilled editing of Helen A. Curry and from the constructive comments of Sissela Bok, Claudia Madrazo, Martin Malin, Stephen Provasnik, Fernando Reimers, Richard Rothstein, Laura Salganik, Camer Vellani and Rosanna Warren. The UBASE project is supported by a generous grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and by grants from John Reed, the Golden Family Foundation, Sergei S. Zlinkoff Fund for Medical Research and Education, Paul Zuckerman, an anonymous donor, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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Joel E. Cohen (United States)

Joel E. Cohen is Professor of Populations and head of the Laboratory of Populations at Rockefeller and Columbia Universities, New York. Cohen studies the population biology of human and non-human populations. His 327 papers and 12 books include Forecasting Product Liability Claims: Epidemiology and Modeling in the Manville Asbestos Case (2005), Comparisons of Stochastic Matrices, with Applications in Information Theory, Statistics, Economics and Population Sciences (1998), and How Many People Can the Earth Support? (1995). Cohen was co-winner of the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement (1999), the Soper Prize awarded by the Pan American Health Organization (1998), and the Nordberg Prize of the Population Council (1997). Cohen is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. This article is Copyright © 2006 by Joel E. Cohen. E-mail: cohen@rockefeller.edu.

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Cohen, J.E. Goals of universal basic and secondary education. Prospects 36, 247–269 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11125-006-0016-1

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