Delivery of Education Services in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Romania. Bulgaria and Albania joined in 1998. The … infringe on the effectiveness of service delivery in the education sector. Country teams prepared country assessments of … intergovernmental arrangements in the education sector. Each country report reviewed the roles being played by different actors in the …

education quality. Student achievement information can be used to inform a wide variety of education policies, including the … do tend not to use the results to inform their education policies. Yet better education policies have the potential to … promote significant increases in cognitive skills. If developing countries are truly to achieve education for all, they will …

The Education for All (EFA) movement, launched in 1990, has resulted in an extraordinary mobilization of World Bank and … country resources in support of basic education over the past 15 years. World Bank EFA financing, mostly focused on primary … education, has become increasingly progressive, targeting the most disadvantaged countries and often the disadvantaged within …

shortages. Multigrade teaching is a promising option for provision of education services in small schools. In Uganda the quality …

areas2). Nonetheless, the models rank poorly in terms of teacher education and experience, adoption of active …

increasing demands on the education budget, yet it is unlikely that substantial increases in the sector budget envelope will be … education and training. This report emphasizes: the need for a balanced focus on resource availability and use, because without … study clearly demonstrate the need to focus on school and classroom processes and better use of education resources focused …

Improving student learning is the key challenge for education in Latin America and the Caribbean. This book is divided … into three parts. Part one focuses on the central role of student learning in education. Chapter one examines why student … raise the quality of education. Part two reviews the evidence on the factors and policies that affect student learning. It …