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The Role of States… H. Aziz / 73

In the immense CST there is Globally, this translates into
a vast space for education, filled gaps between rich and poor
with competition by numerous countries.
epistemologies, which share The gaps adversely impact, to
methodologies influenced by lesser or greater degree, on
technological developments. national economies and on the
All epistemologies commute social well-being of their
the preexisting unsolved issues populations.
in education to CST. The least common
The religious organizations denominator to all countries-
with the most credible rich, poor, and middle- is that
curriculums that focus on the old “not all learners are achieving
unsolved issues in education are their potential at school.”
better positioned to command The under-achievements
large support bases and win the compound social problems,
attention of policy makers. which are already complex but
There are many such issues seemingly averse to intervention
but the priority ones are: strategies.
• Achievement gaps - How can religious
between learners institutions optimize the
• Ongoing professional social and economic
development of teachers. return on their
governments edu-spend,
Achievement Gaps between supplemented by parental
Learners and corporate spending?

Rose Luckin et al., state, “The
gap between those who achieve Across the world- rich, poor
the most and those who achieve and middle- there are vast arrays
the least is a challenge that of people with low literacy and
teachers, school leaders, numeracy skills.
administrators, and government Illiteracy and innumeracy in
officials face every day, in every the former colonized countries
country.” still rank high.