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Decentralized decision-making in schools
An increasing number of developing countries are introducing School-Based Management (SBM) reforms aimed at empowering principals and teachers or at strengthening their professional motivation, thereby enhancing their sense of ownership of the school. Many of these reforms have also strengthened parental involvement in the schools, sometimes by means of school councils. SBM programs take many different forms in terms of who has the power to make decisions as well as the degree of ecision-making devolved to the school level. While some programs transfer authority only to school principals or teachers, others encourage or mandate parental and community participation, often in school committees. SBM has the potential to be a low cost way of making public spending on education more efficient by increasing the ountability of the agents involved and by empowering the clients to improve learning outcomes. By putting power in the hands of the end users of the service, SBM eventually produces better school management that is more cognizant of and responsive to the needs of the end users. This study reviews more than 20 country experiences with SBM in Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East and North Africa, as well as more developed countries such as the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Australia, and New Zealand. For each of these countries, a brief description of the SBM reform along with any evidence regarding its impact on a variety of indicators, from student test scores and dropout and repetition rates to parent and teacher perceptions of the reform??s benefits, is included.
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The Overworld Games
\"Spring has sprung, and every mob at Mob Middle School is looking forward to the Overworld Games -- except Gerald Creeper Jr. Other schools are coming to compete from as far away as the Nether! But Gerald's got a problem. He's not big on sprinting, spider riding, or strategic explosions. So which event is this creeper cut out for?\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Emerging Evidence on Vouchers and Faith-Based Providers in Education
While public-private partnerships in education in the United States have received a lot of attention, research on such partnerships elsewhere has been limitedeven though such partnerships have been steadily gaining prominence, particularly in developing countries. Aiming to fill this gap, this book presents fresh, technically sound empirical evidence on the effectiveness and cost of various public-private education partnerships from around the world, including voucher programs and faith-based schools.The evidence on the impact in terms of school performance, targeting, and cost of public-private partnerships is mixed. Some evidence suggests that voucher schools outperform public schools, but the difference between both types of schools is not as large as one might think, and is often smaller than simple statistics suggest. Evidence on faith-based schools tends to show slightly better performance than public schools, but this is not the case in all countries. While in some countries faith-based schools reach the poor better than public schools, in other countries the reverse is observed. As for the private costs of education, evidence shows that costs depend on the systems in place in each country, but that when school choice is limited, parents can still influence the performance of their children through private expenditure for tutoring. More rigorous studies on such partnerships, particularly in developing countries, are necessary.
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School days then and now
\"This exciting title provides students with a comparative look between a modern-day classroom and a one-room schoolhouse from long ago. From slates to whiteboards, question boxes encourage students to compare and contrast how they learn today with how students learned long ago.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Recruiting, retaining and retraining secondary school teachers and principals in Sub-Saharan Africa
This working paper is based on country case studies of Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Madagascar, Tanzania, and Uganda, and an extensive literature review. In many parts of Africa, the demand for secondary teachers substantially exceeds the supply, due to factors such as secondary teacher attrition, bottlenecks in the teacher preparation system, and perceived unattractive conditions of service. Few countries have strong policies, strategies, and programs for recruiting able secondary school graduates to secondary teaching. The paper suggests several critical and promising areas for improvement in the quality of secondary teachers through new approaches to recruitment; pre-service and in-service teacher development; and improvements in the deployment, utilization, compensation, and conditions of service for teachers.
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Lizzie and the last day of school
\"Lizzie loves school more than anything. After starting first grade, she mistakenly thinks it will last a full year and is dismayed when it ends in June. Luckily her first grade teacher applies to teach summer school\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Strategies for Sustainable Financing of Secondary Education in Sub-Saharan Africa : Appendix 4 - Costs and Financing of Secondary Education in Ghana, A Situational Analysis
This thematic study discusses strategies
for sustainable financing of secondary education in
Sub-Saharan Africa. The report provides insight into options
for financing the expansion of secondary education and
training in Africa. This comes with a hefty price tag and
points to the need to undertake fundamental reforms swiftly.
This publication messages are clear: secondary education and
training in Sub-Saharan Africa faces the challenge of
improved efficiency and improved quality simultaneously with
a fast growing demand. Sustainable financing will also
require more effective public-private partnerships, because
governments have many priorities and do not have a lot of
room for significant additional public funding of
post-primary systems. Educational reforms are needed to
expand enrollment in secondary schooling in affordable ways.
These reforms will contribute to poverty reduction by
increasing the levels of knowledge, skills, and capability;
diminishing inequalities in access that limit social
mobility and skew income distribution; and contributing to
the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
that relate to education.
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Super Emma
Third-grader Emma becomes a reluctant heroine when she defends a friend from the class bully.
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Rethinking school feeding
This review was prepared jointly by the World Bank Group and the World Food Programme (WFP), building on the comparative advantages of both organizations. It examines the evidence base for school feeding programs with the objective of better understanding how to develop and implement effective school feeding programs in two contexts: a productive safety net, as part of the response to the social shocks of the global food, fuel and financial crises, and a fiscally sustainable investment in human capital, as part of long-term global efforts to achieve Education for All and provide social protection to the poor.
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