This unique contribution to the global educational debate and policy-making by the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to education highlights adverse impacts of denials and abuses of education. Reviewing the history of global commitment to education as a human right, the author traces the global split between rights-based and lottery-based approaches. Current problems are examined through the human rights perspective. This book highlights examples of exposing and opposing abuses of power that this quest has involved and what needs to be done through examples of effective mobilization for change.