Learning to Realize Education’s Promise
Hundreds of millions of children around the world reach young adulthood without basic life skills. Even if they attend school, many leave without the ability to calculate the correct change from a transaction, read a doctor’s instructions, or interpret a campaign promise - let alone build a fulfilling career or educate their children. In this
World Development Report, the
World Bank highlights poor service delivery as the factor that amplifies the effects of poverty - and deeper system-level problems, both technical and political – that allow poor-quality schooling to persist. It argues that countries can improve by advancing on three fronts: Assess learning to make it a serious goal; act on evidence to make schools work for all learners; and align actors to make the system work for learning.
https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/28340/9781464810961.pdf
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