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Expanding Opportunities and Building Competencies for Young People: A New Agenda for Secondary Education (Directions in Development)
World Bank
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Paperback. Latin America faces tremendous challenges, particularly those of development, poverty, and inequality. Education is a critical way of defeating these. The reforms explored in this volume represent efforts by several countries in the region to increase teacher accountability and introduce incentives to motivate teachers to raise student learning. Num Pages: 328 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; JNLC; JNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 535.
Latin America faces tremendous challenges, particularly those of development, poverty, and inequality. Education is widely recognized as one of the most critical means of defeating these challenges. Democratizing education, by improving both its coverage and quality, is critical to overcoming the social and economic inequality that plagues Latin America. Ensuring that all children have the opportunity to learn critical skills at the primary and secondary level is paramount to overcoming skill barriers that perpetuate underdevelopment and poverty. A growing body of evidence supports the intuitive notion that teachers play a key role in what, how, and how much students learn. ... Read more
Latin America faces tremendous challenges, particularly those of development, poverty, and inequality. Education is widely recognized as one of the most critical means of defeating these challenges. Democratizing education, by improving both its coverage and quality, is critical to overcoming the social and economic inequality that plagues Latin America. Ensuring that all children have the opportunity to learn critical skills at the primary and secondary level is paramount to overcoming skill barriers that perpetuate underdevelopment and poverty. A growing body of evidence supports the intuitive notion that teachers play a key role in what, how, and how much students learn. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
World Bank Publications
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Washington, United States
ISBN
9780821361702
SKU
V9780821361702
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