Making Schools Work : New Evidence on Accountability Reforms

This volume is a systematic stock-taking of the evidence on school accountability reforms in developing countries. It provides a measured and insightful review and assessment of the results of a variety of approaches that developing countries are e...

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Main Authors: Bruns, Barbara, Filmer, Deon, Patrinos, Harry Anthony
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Language:English
Published: World Bank 2012
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spelling okr-10986-22702021-04-23T14:02:00Z Making Schools Work : New Evidence on Accountability Reforms Bruns, Barbara Filmer, Deon Patrinos, Harry Anthony EDUCATION QUALITY THREATS INNOVATIVE STRATEGIES LACK OF RESOURCES PUBLICLY FINANCED SCHOOL SYSTEMS SCHOOL ACCOUNTABILITY SERVICE DELIVERY FAILURES This volume is a systematic stock-taking of the evidence on school accountability reforms in developing countries. It provides a measured and insightful review and assessment of the results of a variety of approaches that developing countries are experimenting with in their quest for better schools. It is not the final word on the subject, but will hopefully contribute to better policy choices, grounded in the evidence currently available. This book is about the threats to education quality that cannot be explained by lack of resources. It focuses on publicly financed school systems and the phenomenon of service delivery failures: cases where programs and policies that increase the inputs to education fail to produce effective delivery of services where it counts-in schools and classrooms. It documents what authors know about the extent and costs of service delivery failures in public education in the developing world. And it further develops aspects of the conceptual model posited in the World development report 2004: that a root cause of low-quality and inequitable public services-not only in education-is the weak 'accountability' of providers to both their supervisors and their clients (World Bank 2003). The central focus of this book, however, is a new story. It is that developing countries are increasingly adopting innovative strategies to attack these issues. 2012-03-19T09:02:54Z 2012-03-19T09:02:54Z 2011-02-24 http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000356161_20110310015235 978-0-8213-8679-8 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/2270 English Human Development Perspectives CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank Publications & Research :: Publication Publications & Research :: Publication
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topic EDUCATION QUALITY THREATS
INNOVATIVE STRATEGIES
LACK OF RESOURCES
PUBLICLY FINANCED SCHOOL SYSTEMS
SCHOOL ACCOUNTABILITY
SERVICE DELIVERY FAILURES
spellingShingle EDUCATION QUALITY THREATS
INNOVATIVE STRATEGIES
LACK OF RESOURCES
PUBLICLY FINANCED SCHOOL SYSTEMS
SCHOOL ACCOUNTABILITY
SERVICE DELIVERY FAILURES
Bruns, Barbara
Filmer, Deon
Patrinos, Harry Anthony
Making Schools Work : New Evidence on Accountability Reforms
relation Human Development Perspectives
description This volume is a systematic stock-taking of the evidence on school accountability reforms in developing countries. It provides a measured and insightful review and assessment of the results of a variety of approaches that developing countries are experimenting with in their quest for better schools. It is not the final word on the subject, but will hopefully contribute to better policy choices, grounded in the evidence currently available. This book is about the threats to education quality that cannot be explained by lack of resources. It focuses on publicly financed school systems and the phenomenon of service delivery failures: cases where programs and policies that increase the inputs to education fail to produce effective delivery of services where it counts-in schools and classrooms. It documents what authors know about the extent and costs of service delivery failures in public education in the developing world. And it further develops aspects of the conceptual model posited in the World development report 2004: that a root cause of low-quality and inequitable public services-not only in education-is the weak 'accountability' of providers to both their supervisors and their clients (World Bank 2003). The central focus of this book, however, is a new story. It is that developing countries are increasingly adopting innovative strategies to attack these issues.
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Filmer, Deon
Patrinos, Harry Anthony
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title Making Schools Work : New Evidence on Accountability Reforms
title_short Making Schools Work : New Evidence on Accountability Reforms
title_full Making Schools Work : New Evidence on Accountability Reforms
title_fullStr Making Schools Work : New Evidence on Accountability Reforms
title_full_unstemmed Making Schools Work : New Evidence on Accountability Reforms
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