Making Schools Work: New Evidence on Accountability Reforms

by Deon Filmer, Barbara Bruns, Harry A. Patrinos

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821386794
• ISBN13: 9780821386798
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: World Bank Publications
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"