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Summary:

Abstract: Every year, the World Bank's World Development Report takes on a topic of central importance to global development. The 2018 Report, Learning to Realize Education's Promise, is the first ever devoted entirely to education. This title explains that education has long been critical for human welfare, but is even more so in a time of rapid economic change.

Table of Contents:

• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Overview: learning to realize education's promise
• The three dimensions of the learning crisis
• How to realize education's promise: three policy responses
• Learning to realize education's promise
• Part I. Education's promise: Chapter 1. Schooling, learning, and the promise of education
• Part II. The learning crisis:; Chapter 2. The great schooling expansion - and those it has left behind; Chapter 3. The many faces of the learning crisis; Chapter 4. To take learning seriously, start by measuring it
• Part III. Innovations and evidence for learning: Chapter 5. There is no learning without prepared, motivated learners; Chapter 6. Teacher skills and motivation both matter (though many education systems act like they don't); Chapter 7. Everything else should strengthen the teacher-learner interaction; Chapter 8. Build on foundations by linking skills training to jobs
• Part IV. Making the system work for learning at scale: Chapter 9. Education systems are misaligned with learning; Chapter 10. Unhealthy politics drives misalignments; Chapter 11. How to escape low-learning traps.

Contributors:

World Bank , author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Economic development — Developing countries

Education — Developing countries

Economic development — Effect of education on

Economic development

Education

Developing countries

General Notes:

Description based on title page of print version.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (31 entries) : 86 images.

Call Numbers:

LC65 .W659 2017eb

ISBNs:

9781786848499 (electronic version)
1464810966 (print) [Invalid]
9781464810961 (print) [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1090359061

Other Control Numbers:

gtp00567778 (source: CaBNVSL)
wbworld2018 (source: Credo)
[Unknown Type]: Credo9781786848499