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Content: This paper analyzes the evolution in socio-economic and ethnic disparities in tertiary education attainment, participation, and completion and labor market outcomes in the six countries of Central America. There is evidence of differential progress, with Costa Rica, a middle-income country, and Nicaragua, a low-income country, having improved participation of low-income students in tertiary education, while this continues to be negligible in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras. Wide differentials in salaries linked to socio-economic background can signal differences in the quality of tertiary education or prior educational experiences. The analysis distinguishes between long-term and short-term constraints and the key transitions in the education cycle that impede access to tertiary education. The main obstacle to accessing tertiary education for poor students is the failure to either start or complete secondary education, suggesting different priorities for different countries in addressing long-term constraints. However, problems also arise within tertiary education, as in all countries the average tertiary education completion rate is below 50 percent, with even lower rates for students from low-income families and indigenous backgrounds. The paper uses an OECD framework for public policies for promoting equity in tertiary education to assess policies in Central American countries and concludes that many of them currently lack the policies, instruments, and institutional mechanisms to promote greater equity in tertiary education. The paper highlights how valuable insights can be obtained from analysis of household survey data in the absence of comprehensive data on tertiary education which is typical of many developing countries

Additional Edition: Bashir, Sajitha Equity in Tertiary Education in Central America

Language: English

DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-6180

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Content: Indonesia's most recent amendment to its decentralization legislation transferred a far greater role in education management and service delivery to subnational governments. However, little information has been made available on how subnational governments conduct the planning, allocation, and execution of their education budgets-a key driver of increased human capital development. This study aims to fill this essential information gap by assessing the activities implemented by subnational governments as they fulfill their mandate in the education sector. Data collected from January to June 2019 in a survey of 27 districts and cities spread over eight provinces, as well as an analysis of national spending data

Language: English

DOI: 10.1596/34831

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ISBN: 9781464801525

Series Statement: Latin American Development Forum

Content: In every area, the book distills the latest evidence from inside and outside the region to provide practical guidance to policymakers in the design of effective programs and sustainable reforms. A final chapter analyzes the politics of recent major teacher reforms in Chile, Peru, Ecuador and Mexico, chronicling the prominent role of teachers' unions and the political and communications strategies that have underpinned successful reforms

Language: English

DOI: 10.1596/978-1-4648-0151-8

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Edition: 2013 World Bank eLibrary

Content: This paper derives the skill content of 30 countries, ranging from low-income to high-income ones, from the occupational structure of their economies. Five different skills are defined.. Cross-country measures of skill content show that the intensity of national production of manual skills declines with per capita income in a monotonic way, while it increases for non-routine cognitive and interpersonal skills. For some countries, the analysis is able to trace the development of skill intensities of aggregate production over time. The paper finds that although the increasing intensity of non-routine skills is uniform across countries, patterns of skill intensities with respect to different forms of routine skills differ markedly

Additional Edition: Aedo, Cristian From Occupations to Embedded Skills

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DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-6560

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ISBN: 9781464801518

Content: The seven million teachers of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) are the critical actors in the region's efforts to improve education quality and raise student learning levels, which lag far behind those of OECD countries and East Asian countries such as China. This book documents the high economic stakes around teacher quality, benchmarks the current performance of LAC's teachers, and delineates the key issues. These include low standards for entry into teacher training, poor quality training programs that are detached from the realities of the classroom, unattractive career incentives, and weak support for teachers once they are on the job. New research conducted for this report in close to 15,000 classrooms in seven different LAC countries - the largest cross-country study of this kind to date - provides a first-ever insight into how the region's teachers perform inside the classroom. It documents that the average teacher in LAC loses the equivalent of one day of instructional time per week because of inadequate preparation, excessive time on administration (taking attendance, passing out papers) and a surprisingly high share of time physically absent from the classrooms where they should be teaching. Teachers also make limited use of available learning materials, espcially those using information and communications technology (ICT), and are unable to keep the majority of their students engaged. The book sets out the three priority lines of reform needed to produce great teachers in LAC: policies to recruit better teachers; programs to groom teachers and improve their skills once they are in service; and stronger incentives to motivate teachers to perform their best throughout their career. In every area, the book distills the latest evidence from inside and outside the region to provide practical guidance to policymakers in the design of effective programs and sustainable reforms. A final chapter analyzes the politics of recent major teacher reforms in Chile, Peru, Ecuador and Mexico, chronicling the prominent role of teachers' unions and the political and communications strategies that have underpinned successful reforms

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Content: While the importance of good teaching may be intuitively obvious, only over the past decade has education research begun to quantify the high economic stakes around teacher quality. In a world where the goals of national education systems are being transformed, from a focus on the transmission of facts and memorization to a focus on student competencies for critical thinking, problem solving and lifelong learning the demands on teachers are more complex than ever. Governments across the world have put teacher quality and teacher performance under increasing scrutiny. The Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region is no exception to these trends; indeed, in some key areas of teacher policy, the region is at the vanguard of global reform experience. The study aims to benchmark the current performance of LAC s teachers and identify key issues. It shares emerging evidence on important reforms of teacher policy being implemented in Lac countries. The study also analyzes the political room for maneuver for further reform in Lac. They focus on teachers in basic education (preschools, primary and secondary education) because the quantitative and qualitative challenges of producing effective teachers at these levels differ in key ways from university-level education, which has been addressed in other recent World Bank publications

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Series Statement: Policy Research Working Paper 6180

Content: This paper analyzes the evolution in socio-economic and ethnic disparities in tertiary education attainment, participation, and completion and labor market outcomes in the six countries of Central America. There is evidence of differential progress, with Costa Rica, a middle-income country, and Nicaragua, a low-income country, having improved participation of low-income students in tertiary education, while this continues to be negligible in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras. Wide differentials in salaries linked to socio-economic background can signal differences in the quality of tertiary education or prior educational experiences. The analysis distinguishes between long-term and short-term constraints and the key transitions in the education cycle that impede access to tertiary education. The main obstacle to accessing tertiary education for poor students is the failure to either start or complete secondary education, suggesting different priorities for different countries in addressing long-term constraints. However, problems also arise within tertiary education, as in all countries the average tertiary education completion rate is below 50 percent, with even lower rates for students from low-income families and indigenous backgrounds. The paper uses an OECD framework for public policies for promoting equity in tertiary education to assess policies in Central American countries and concludes that many of them currently lack the policies, instruments, and institutional mechanisms to promote greater equity in tertiary education. The paper highlights how valuable insights can be obtained from analysis of household survey data in the absence of comprehensive data on tertiary education which is typical of many developing countries.

Language: English

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Series Statement: Policy Research Working Paper WPS 6560

Content: This paper derives the skill content of 30 countries, ranging from low-income to high-income ones, from the occupational structure of their economies. Five different skills are defined.. Cross-country measures of skill content show that the intensity of national production of manual skills declines with per capita income in a monotonic way, while it increases for non-routine cognitive and interpersonal skills. For some countries, the analysis is able to trace the development of skill intensities of aggregate production over time. The paper finds that although the increasing intensity of non-routine skills is uniform across countries, patterns of skill intensities with respect to different forms of routine skills differ markedly.

Language: English

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Format: Online-Ressource (190 p.)

Edition: Online-Ausg. 2012 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780821388549

Series Statement: Directions in development

Content: Over the past 15 years, Brazil has introduced a consistent program of reforms of its education system, progressively aligning the educational attainment of its labor force with that of other middle income countries and introducing advanced student assessment and monitoring systems

Note: Description based upon print version of record , Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; About the Authors; Abbreviations; Executive Summary; Chapter 1: Brazilian Education 1995-2010: Transformation; Education Finance Reform; Measuring Results; Reducing Schooling Costs for Poor Children; Federal Oversight; Conclusion; Chapter 2: Brazilian Basic Education: Meeting the Challenge?; Meeting the Needs of a 21st Century Economy; Reducing Inequality and Poverty; Transforming Spending into Learning; Conclusion; Chapter 3: Brazilian Basic Education 2011-2021: The Next Agenda; Building Better Teachers; Strengthening Early Childhood Education , Schooling a 21st Century Workforce: Raising Quality in Secondary EducationMaximizing Federal Impact and Capitalizing on Brazil's Education Action Lab; References; Annex 1. Delivering Results for Children in Rio's Favelas: Escola Municipal Affonso Varzea; Annex 2. Delivering Results for Children in Northeast Brazil: Pernambuco Escola Estadual Tomé Francisco; Annex 3. Access to and Quality of Early Childhood Development in Brazil Compared with the OECD and LAC Countries; Annex 4. Global Evidence on Universal Versus Targeted Early Childhood Development Coverage , Annex 5. Skills Composition in the Brazilian Labor MarketAnnex 6. Tables; Boxes; 1. Avoiding Perverse Incentives: Brazil's Index of Basic Educational Quality; 2. Basic Numeracy as Measured on PISA; 3. Evaluating the Impact of São Paulo's Prova de Promoção; 4. Holding Teachers Accountable for Performance: Washington D.C.'s IMPACT Program; 5. The U.S. Race to the Top Program; Figures; 1. Primary Education Enrollment by Provider, 1990-2009; 2. FUNDEF/FUNDEB Expenditures, 1998-2010; 3. Cognitive Skills and Economic Growth Across Regions; 4. Cognitive Skills and Economic Growth Across Countries , 5. PISA 2009 Math Scores, All Countries6. Brazil's PISA Math Performance, 2000-2009; 7. Comparative PISA Math Proficiency, 2009; 8. Math Proficiency on SAEB/Prova Brasil, 1995-2009; 9. Share of Students by Proficiency Level, Reading and Math, PISA 2000-2009; 10. Change in Average Educational Attainment in Brazil, 1993-2009; 11. Shifts in Real Wages for Workers by Years of Schooling, 1993-2009; 12. Changing Demand for Skills in the U.S. Economy, 1959-1999; 13. Changes in Brazil's Occupational Structure, 1980-2009; 14. Evolution of Skills in the Labor Force: United States and Brazil, 1981-2009 , 15. Skills Evolution in the Top Two Quintiles of the Brazilian Labor Force, 1981-200916. Regional Trends in Educational Attainment, 1993-2009; 17. Educational Attainment by Region, 2009; 18. Educational Attainment for Urban and Rural Populations, 2009; 19. Fourth-Grade Math Performance by Region, 1999-2009; 20. Educational Attainment of 20-Year-Olds Compared with Their Household Heads, 1993-2009; 21. Years of Schooling Completed and PISA Math Performance by Household Income Quintile; 22. Cost-Effectiveness of Alternative Education Programs; 23. Consolidated Education Spending, 2000-2009 , 24. Public Expenditure on Education as a Percentage of GDP in OECD Countries and Brazil, 2007 , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

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Additional Edition: Print version Achieving World-Class Education in Brazil : The Next Agenda

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Series Statement: Directions in Development

Content: Over the past 15 years, Brazil has introduced a consistent program of reforms of its education system, progressively aligning the educational attainment of its labor force with that of other middle income countries and introducing advanced student assessment and monitoring systems.

Content: Intro -- Half Title Page -- Copyright -- Title Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Executive Summary -- Chapter 1: Brazilian Education 1995-2010: Transformation -- Education Finance Reform -- Measuring Results -- Reducing Schooling Costs for Poor Children -- Federal Oversight -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2: Brazilian Basic Education: Meeting the Challenge? -- Meeting the Needs of a 21st Century Economy -- Reducing Inequality and Poverty -- Transforming Spending into Learning -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3: Brazilian Basic Education 2011-2021: The Next Agenda -- Building Better Teachers -- Strengthening Early Childhood Education -- Schooling a 21st Century Workforce: Raising Quality in Secondary Education -- Maximizing Federal Impact and Capitalizing on Brazil's Education Action Lab -- References -- Annex 1. Delivering Results for Children in Rio's Favelas: Escola Municipal Affonso Varzea -- Annex 2. Delivering Results for Children in Northeast Brazil: Pernambuco Escola Estadual Tomé Francisco -- Annex 3. Access to and Quality of Early Childhood Development in Brazil Compared with the OECD and LAC Countries -- Annex 4. Global Evidence on Universal Versus Targeted Early Childhood Development Coverage -- Annex 5. Skills Composition in the Brazilian Labor Market -- Annex 6. Tables -- Back Cover.

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