Aaron Benavot is a global education policy analyst currently working as the director of

Education for All Global Monitoring Report The 'Global Education Monitoring Report (GEM Report)'' was launched in 2016. Previously titled the Education foAll GlobalMonitoring Report, it published 12 Reports from 2002 until 2015, and was then renamed and relaunched under a new UN mandate to ...

Professional career

After completing his doctorate from

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

in 1986, Benavot joined

University of Georgia , mottoeng = "To teach, to serve, and to inquire into the nature of things.""To serve" was later added to the motto without changing the seal; the Latin motto directly translates as "To teach and to inquire into the nature of things." , establ ...

as an Assistant Professor in

Sociology Sociology is a social science that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of Interpersonal ties, social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. It uses various methods of Empirical ...

. In 1990, he moved to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where he remained until 2007. Benavot then joined School of Education at the

University at Albany, SUNY The State University of New York at Albany, commonly referred to as the University at Albany, UAlbany or SUNY Albany, is a public research university with campuses in Albany, Rensselaer, and Guilderland, New York. Founded in 1844, it is one ...

, New York. In 2007, he was elected to the Board of Directors at the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES). Benavot has served as co-editor of the

Comparative Education Review ''Comparative Education Review'' is the official publication of the Comparative and International Education Society general linguistics, the comparative is a syntactic construction that serves to express a comparison between two (or more) entiti ...

from 2009 to 2012 and currently serves on the advisory boards of number of journals including Revista Latinoamericana de Educación Comparada, Mediterranean Journal of Educational Studies, Revista de Educación, and Innovation-The European Journal of Social Science Research. Benavot has also worked as a Senior Policy Analyst for the

UNESCO The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) aimed at promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture. It ...

between 2005 and 2009. In 2014, he joined the report team as the director.

Titles and awards

* 2004 – Selected as Member, College of Fellows,

International Bureau of Education The International Bureau of Education (IBE-UNESCO) is a UNESCO category 1 institute mandated as the Centre of Excellence in curriculum and related matters. Consistent with the declaration of the decision of the 36th session of the General Confer ...

* 1997 – Recipient, George Bereday Award for best article in Comparative Education Review * 1990 – Recipient of

Yigal Allon Yigal Allon ( he, יגאל אלון; 10 October 1918 – 29 February 1980) was an Israeli politician, commander of the Palmach, and general in the Israel Defense Forces, IDF. He served as one of the leaders of Ahdut HaAvoda party and the Labor P ...

National Fellowship (Israel) * 1989 – Recipient of National Academy of Education Spencer Fellowship (USA) * 1989 – Selected as Research Fellow, Institute of Behavioral Research, University of Georgia * 1982 – Recipient of Free

University of Berlin Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (german: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a German public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin. It was established by Frederick William III on the initiative o ...

Exchange Scholarship, West Germany

Notable works

* Benavot, A. (1983). The rise and decline of vocational education. Sociology of Education, 56, 63-76. * Benavot, A. and P. Riddle (1988). The expansion of primary education 1870-1940: Trends and issues. Sociology of Education, 61, 190-210. * Benavot, A. (1989). Education, gender, and economic development: A cross-national study. Sociology of Education, 62, 14-32. * Benavot, A., Y-K Cha, D. Kamens, J. Meyer and S-Y Wong (1991). Knowledge for the masses: World models and national curricula: 1920-1987. American Sociological Review, 56, 85-100. * Benavot, A. (1992). Curricular content, educational expansion and economic growth. Comparative Education Review, 36, 150-174. * Benavot, A. (1996). Education and political democratization: A cross-national and longitudinal study. Comparative Education Review, 40, 377-403. * Benavot, A. and L. Gad (2004). Actual instructional time in African primary schools: Factors that reduce school quality in developing countries. Prospects, 34, 291-310. * Benavot, A., J. Resnik and J. Corrales (2006). Global educational expansion: Historical legacies and political obstacles. Cambridge, MA: American Academy of Arts and Sciences. * Benavot, A. and E. Tanner (2007). The growth of national learning assessments in the world, 1995-2006. Background paper for the EFA global monitoring report: Education for All by 2015: Will We Make It? Paris: UNESCO. * Benavot, A. and C. Braslavsky (Eds). (2007). School knowledge in comparative and historical perspective: Changing curricula in primary and secondary education. Hong Kong: Comparative Education Research Centre, University of Hong Kong. * Benavot, A. (2008). "The organization of school knowledge: Official curricula in global perspective." In Julia Resnik (ed.) The production of educational knowledge in the global era. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers. pp. 55–92. * Benavot, A. (2011). Imagining a transformed UNESCO with learning at its core. International Journal of Educational Development, 31(5), 558-561. * Benavot, A. (2012). Primary school curricula in Reading and Mathematics in developing countries. Technical Paper No. 8. UNESCO Institute for Statistics, Montreal, Canada. * Meyer, H-D. and A. Benavot (Eds) (2013). PISA, power, and policy: The emergence of global educational governance. Oxford UK: Symposium Books.

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