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Making Schools Work - New Evidence on Accountability Reforms (Paperback)
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Making Schools Work - New Evidence on Accountability Reforms (Paperback)
Series: Human Development Perspectives
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This book is about the threats to education quality in the
developing world that cannot be explained by lack of resources. It
reviews the observed phenomenon of service delivery failures in
public education: cases where programs and policies increase the
inputs to education but do not produce effective services where it
counts - in schools and classrooms. It documents what we know about
the extent and costs of such failures across low and middle-income
countries. And it further develops 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
clients. The central focus of the book, however, is a new story. It
is that developing countries are increasingly adopting innovative
strategies to attack these problems. Drawing on new evidence from
22 rigorous impact evaluations across 11 developing countries, this
book examines how three key strategies to strengthen accountability
relationships in developing country school systems have affected
school enrollment, completion and student learning. The book
reviews the motivation and global context for education reforms
aimed at strengthening provider accountability. It provides the
rationally and synthesizes the evidence on the impacts of three key
lines of reform: (1) policies that use the power of information to
strengthen the ability of clients of education services (students
and their parents) to hold providers accountable for results; (2)
policies that promote school-based management that is increase
schools autonomy to make key decisions and control resources, often
empowering parents to play a larger role; (3) teacher incentives
reforms that specifically aim at making teachers more accountable
for results, either by making contract tenure dependent on
performance, or offering performance-linked pay. The book
summarizes the lessons learned, draws cautious conclusions about
possible complementarities across different types of
accountability-focused reforms if they are implemented in tandem,
considers issues related to scaling up reform efforts and the
political economy of reform, and suggests directions for future
work."
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