Books, Buildings, and Learning Outcomes : An Impact Evaluation of World Bank Support to Basic Education in Ghana

Books, Buildings, and Learning Outcomes : An Impact Evaluation of World Bank Support to Basic Education in Ghana

The Millennium Development Goals aim for universal primary education by 2015 and gender equality in enrolments at all levels of education. The Education for All (EFA) initiative lays out a strategy for achieving these goals. The Bank's own str...

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Main Author: Operations Evaluation Department
Format: Publication
Language:English
en_US
Published: Washington, DC: World Bank 2013
Subjects:
ACHIEVEMENT
ACHIEVEMENTS
ADDITION
AGED
BASIC EDUCATION
CLASSROOMS
COMMUNITIES
DECENTRALIZATION
EDUCATION POLICIES
EDUCATION PROJECTS
EDUCATION REHABILITATION
EDUCATION SECTOR
EDUCATION SYSTEMS
EDUCATIONAL PERFORMANCE
EDUCATIONAL REFORM
ENROLLMENT
EXPENDITURES
INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS
INTERVENTIONS
LEARNING
LEARNING ACHIEVEMENTS
LEARNING MATERIALS
LEARNING OUTCOMES
LESSONS LEARNED
LEVELS OF EDUCATION
LINGUISTICS
LITERACY
LIVING STANDARDS
MEANING
MEDIUM OF INSTRUCTION
MORTALITY
NUTRITION
PARENTS
PARTNERSHIP
PRIMARY SCHOOL
PRIMARY SCHOOL LEAVERS
PRIMARY SCHOOLS
PRIVATE SECTOR
PUBLIC SCHOOLS
SCHOOL LEAVERS
SCHOOL MANAGEMENT
SCHOOL PERFORMANCE
SCHOOL QUALITY
SCHOOL SUPPLIES
SCHOOLING
SCHOOLS
SECONDARY SCHOOLS
SPORTS
STUDENT PERFORMANCE
SYLLABUS
TEACHER
TEACHERS
TEACHING
TEACHING METHODS
TERTIARY STUDENTS
TEST SCORES
TEXTBOOKS
UNIVERSAL PRIMARY EDUCATION
YOUTH
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/01/5180106/books-buildings-learning-outcomes-impact-evaluation-world-bank-support-basic-education-ghana
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/14901
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Summary:The Millennium Development Goals aim for universal primary education by 2015 and gender equality in enrolments at all levels of education. The Education for All (EFA) initiative lays out a strategy for achieving these goals. The Bank's own strategy stresses the school quality aspects of EFA, emphasizing the need to focus on preserving learning outcomes while access to education is expanded. This report assesses the impact to date of the efforts over the past 15 years toward increasing the quantity and quality of basic education in one African country, Ghana.

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