Learning to realize education's promise.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

World Bank Group, issuing body.

Series:

World development report ; 0163-5085 2018.

World Bank Group flagship report

World development report, 0163-5085 ; 2018

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic development--Effect of education on.

Economic development.

Education--Aims and objectives.

Education.

Education--Economic aspects.

Education--Statistics.

Genre:

Statistics.

Physical Description:

xvii, 216 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/The World Bank, [2018]

Summary:

"The 2018 WDR explores four main themes: First, education's promise: education is a powerful instrument for eradicating poverty and promoting shared prosperity, but fulfilling its potential requires better policies--both within and outside the education system. Second, the need to shine a light on learning: despite gains in access to education, recent learning assessments reveal that many young people around the world, especially those who are poor or marginalized, are leaving school unequipped with even the foundational skills they need for life. At the same time, internationally comparable learning assessments show that skills in many middle-income countries lag far behind what those countries aspire to. And too often these shortcomings are hidden--so as a first step to tackling this learning crisis, it is essential to shine a light on it by assessing student learning better. Third, how to make schools work for all learners: research on areas such as brain science, pedagogical innovations, and school management has identified interventions that promote learning by ensuring that learners are prepared, teachers are both skilled and motivated, and other inputs support the teacher-learner relationship. Fourth, how to make systems work for learning: achieving learning throughout an education system requires more than just scaling up effective interventions. Countries must also overcome technical and political barriers by deploying salient metrics for mobilizing actors and tracking progress, building coalitions for learning, and taking an adaptive approach to reform"--Back cover.

Contents:

Overview: 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 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. Building on foundations by linking skills training to jobs

Part IV. Making the system work for learning at scale

Chaper 9. Education systems are misaligned with learning

Chapter 10. Unhealthy politics drives misalignments

Chapter 11. How to escape low-learning traps.

Notes:

"World Bank Group."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781464810978

1464810974

9781464810961

1464810966

OCLC:

992739083