Improving Primary Education in Developing Countries

by Marlaine E. Lockheed and Adrian M. Verspoor

Book Overview

This work is the first comprehensive review of both the scholarly literature on improving primary education in developing countries and of donors' opinions. It provides an overview of primary education systems and argues that developing countries must do more to serve the needs of all children. The authors promote strategies for improving five aspects of education, including the inclusion of girls and children from poor and rural families--groups...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195208722
• ISBN13: 9780195208726
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 452 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.5"