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Learning To Realize Education`s Promise - Washington World Bank 2018 - 216p
includes index and biblioraphy
Overview : Learning to realize education`s promise ...1 The three dimensions of the learning crisis ...4 How to realize education`s promise : Three policy responses ...16 Learning to realize education`s promise ...27 Part 1 : Education`s promnise ...37 1: Schhooling, learning, and the promise of education ...38 Education as freedom ...38 Education improves individual freedoms ...38 Education benefits all of society ...41 Learning and the promise of education ...44 Part II : The learning crisis ...57 2: The great schooling expansion - and those it has left behind ...58 Most children have acess to basic education ...58 Poverty, gender, ethnicity, disability, and location explain most remaining schooling disparities ...60 For poor parents, schooling requires trade offs ...63 Spotlight 1: The biology of learning 3: The many faces of the learning crisis ...71 For too many, learning isn`t happening ...71 Poor children learn the least, which hurts them the most ...78 What is causing the learning crisis ? ...78 Spotlight 2 : Poverty hinders biological development and undermines learning ...88 4: To take learning seriously, start by measuring it ...91 The learning crisis is often hidden but measurement makes it visible ...91 Measures for learning guide action ...92 Measures of learning sputaction ...93 Choose learning metrics based on what the country needs ...95 Will learning metrics narrow the vision for education ? ...95 Six tips for effective learning measurement ...96 Spotlight 3: The muitidmensionality of skills ...102 Part III Innovations and evidence for learning ...107 Spotlight 4 : Learning about learning ...108 5: There is no learning without prepared, motivated learners ...112 Investing in their early years prepares Children for school ...112 Providing demand side support can get kids to school, but not necessarily to learn ...116 Rmedial education can prepare learners for further education and training ...119 6: Teacher skills and motivation both matter ?(though many education systems act like they don`t) ...131 Most teacher training is ineffective, but some approaches work ...131 Helping teachers teach to the level of the student has proven effective ...133 Teacher motivation and incentives make a difference, even with few inputs ...136 7: Everything else should strengthen the teacher -learner interaction ...145 Technological interventions increase learning but only if they enhnce thr teacher learners relationship ....145 Other inputs bring learners to school but promote learning only if they target teaching and learning ...147 School management and goverance are crucial, and involving communities can help overcome incentive problems and information failures but only if communities have capacity ...148 8: Build on foundations by linking skills training to jobs ...154 Workplace training can help young people develop skills, yet few benefit from it ...154 Short term job training offers opportunities, but most programs fail to deliver ...156 TVET can prepare young people for work, but early sorting into TVET can limit career growth ...156 Sucessful job training programs share several features ...157 Spotlight 5: Technology is changing the world of work : What does that mean for learning ? ...164 Part IV : Making the system work for learning at scale 9: Education systems are misaligned with learning ...170 Misalignments and incoherence impede learning ...171 Technical complexities make it hard to align education systems with learning ...175 Spotlight 6: Spending more or spending better or both ? 10: Unhealthy politics drives misalignments ...189 Unhealthy politics can intensify misalignments in edcation systems ...189 Multiple actors and interests : Pulling the ststem out of alignment at each sep of he policy cycle ...190 Trapped in law accountability , Low learning equilibriums ...195 11: How to ascape low-learning traps ...199 Improving information ...199
9781464810961 2732
O22 / L479
Learning To Realize Education`s Promise - Washington World Bank 2018 - 216p
includes index and biblioraphy
Overview : Learning to realize education`s promise ...1 The three dimensions of the learning crisis ...4 How to realize education`s promise : Three policy responses ...16 Learning to realize education`s promise ...27 Part 1 : Education`s promnise ...37 1: Schhooling, learning, and the promise of education ...38 Education as freedom ...38 Education improves individual freedoms ...38 Education benefits all of society ...41 Learning and the promise of education ...44 Part II : The learning crisis ...57 2: The great schooling expansion - and those it has left behind ...58 Most children have acess to basic education ...58 Poverty, gender, ethnicity, disability, and location explain most remaining schooling disparities ...60 For poor parents, schooling requires trade offs ...63 Spotlight 1: The biology of learning 3: The many faces of the learning crisis ...71 For too many, learning isn`t happening ...71 Poor children learn the least, which hurts them the most ...78 What is causing the learning crisis ? ...78 Spotlight 2 : Poverty hinders biological development and undermines learning ...88 4: To take learning seriously, start by measuring it ...91 The learning crisis is often hidden but measurement makes it visible ...91 Measures for learning guide action ...92 Measures of learning sputaction ...93 Choose learning metrics based on what the country needs ...95 Will learning metrics narrow the vision for education ? ...95 Six tips for effective learning measurement ...96 Spotlight 3: The muitidmensionality of skills ...102 Part III Innovations and evidence for learning ...107 Spotlight 4 : Learning about learning ...108 5: There is no learning without prepared, motivated learners ...112 Investing in their early years prepares Children for school ...112 Providing demand side support can get kids to school, but not necessarily to learn ...116 Rmedial education can prepare learners for further education and training ...119 6: Teacher skills and motivation both matter ?(though many education systems act like they don`t) ...131 Most teacher training is ineffective, but some approaches work ...131 Helping teachers teach to the level of the student has proven effective ...133 Teacher motivation and incentives make a difference, even with few inputs ...136 7: Everything else should strengthen the teacher -learner interaction ...145 Technological interventions increase learning but only if they enhnce thr teacher learners relationship ....145 Other inputs bring learners to school but promote learning only if they target teaching and learning ...147 School management and goverance are crucial, and involving communities can help overcome incentive problems and information failures but only if communities have capacity ...148 8: Build on foundations by linking skills training to jobs ...154 Workplace training can help young people develop skills, yet few benefit from it ...154 Short term job training offers opportunities, but most programs fail to deliver ...156 TVET can prepare young people for work, but early sorting into TVET can limit career growth ...156 Sucessful job training programs share several features ...157 Spotlight 5: Technology is changing the world of work : What does that mean for learning ? ...164 Part IV : Making the system work for learning at scale 9: Education systems are misaligned with learning ...170 Misalignments and incoherence impede learning ...171 Technical complexities make it hard to align education systems with learning ...175 Spotlight 6: Spending more or spending better or both ? 10: Unhealthy politics drives misalignments ...189 Unhealthy politics can intensify misalignments in edcation systems ...189 Multiple actors and interests : Pulling the ststem out of alignment at each sep of he policy cycle ...190 Trapped in law accountability , Low learning equilibriums ...195 11: How to ascape low-learning traps ...199 Improving information ...199
9781464810961 2732
O22 / L479