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  • Great Teachers

    How to Raise Student Learning in Latin America and the Caribbean

    by Barbara Bruns, Javier Luque ...
    Series series Latin American Development Forum
    The seven million teachers of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) are the critical actors in the region's efforts to improve education quality and raise student learning levels, which lag far behind those of OECD countries and East Asian countries such as China. This book documents the high economic stakes around teacher quality, benchmarks the current performance of LAC's teachers, and ... Read more

    $34.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Great Teachers

    How to Raise Student Learning in Latin America and the Caribbean

    by Barbara Bruns, Javier Luque ...
    Series series Latin American Development Forum
    The seven million teachers of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) are the critical actors in the region's efforts to improve education quality and raise student learning levels, which lag far behind those of OECD countries and East Asian countries such as China. This book documents the high economic stakes around teacher quality, benchmarks the current performance of LAC's teachers, and ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Making Schools Work: New Evidence on Accountability Reforms

    by Bruns,Barbara; Filmer,Deon; Patrinos,Harry Anthony ...
    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 ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Disability and Equity at Work

    by Jody Heymann, Michael Ashley Stein, Gonzalo Moreno ...
    Despite international and national guarantees of equal rights, there remains a great deal to be done to achieve global employment equality for individuals with disabilities. In OECD countries, the employment rate of persons with disabilities was just over 40%, compared to 75% for persons without a disability; in many low- and middle-income countries, the employment rates are even lower. There are ... Read more

    $91.79 USD

  • Raising Student Learning In Latin America: The Challenge For The 21st Century

    by Vegas Emiliana; Petrow Jenny ...
    In the effort to meet enrollment targets for compulsory education in Latin America, the drive to achieve universal coverage seems to have left education quality behind. In the face of meager student performance, understanding what and how students are learning have emerged as salient issues facing policy makers in a region that has already achieved considerable success in the area of access to ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • OECD Reviews of School Resources: Uruguay 2016

    by Collectif ...
    Series series Education
    The effective use of school resources is a policy priority across OECD countries. The OECD Reviews of School Resources explore how resources can be governed, distributed, utilised and managed to improve the quality, equity and efficiency of school education.The series considers four types of resources: financial resources, such as public funding of individual schools; human resources, such as ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • The Right Skills for the Job?: Rethinking Training Policies for Workers

    Edited by Rita Almeida, Jere Behrman, David Robalino ...
    Creating jobs and increasing productivity are at the top of agenda for policymakers across the world. Knowledge accumulation and skills are recognized as central in this process. More-educated workers not only have better employment opportunities, earn more, and have more stable and rewarding jobs, but also they are more adaptable and mobile. Workers who acquire more skills also make other workers ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Establishing a Framework for Evaluation and Teacher Incentives

    Considerations for Mexico

    by Collective ...
    Countries with underperforming education systems are recognising that effective reform is vital. But what types of programmes are likely to be effective, and how can they be implemented given local norms and conditions? This report focuses on evaluation, assessment and teacher incentives and attempts to answer these important questions for Mexico and, by extension, other OECD member and partner ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Territory, specialization and globalization in European Manufacturing

    by Helena Marques, Francisco Puig ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Global Competition
    Although traditional manufacturing (textiles, clothing, footwear, furniture, etc) has been in decline in developed countries, it still represents an important part of European employment due to its labour-intensive character. Moreover, its geographical concentration particularly exposes certain regions of Europe to job loss as the industry declines. This book provides an explanation for the ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • A Primer on Corporate Governance

    Mexico

    by Jose Luis Rivas ...
    A Primer on Corporate Governance: Mexico describes the macro context in which Mexico is embedded, focusing on its corporate governance system: laws, regulatory bodies, code of good governance, stock market, and the peculiarities of local business groups.Mexico is a land inhabited by several indigenous civilizations and was conquered by Spain in 1521. The country is mostly a racial mix between the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • What Works

    Gender Equality by Design

    by Iris Bohnet ...
    Gender equality is a moral and a business imperative. But unconscious bias holds us back, and de-biasing people’s minds has proven to be difficult and expensive. Diversity training programs have had limited success, and individual effort alone often invites backlash. Behavioral design offers a new solution. By de-biasing organizations instead of individuals, we can make smart changes that have big ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

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  • Implementing Deeper Learning and 21st Century Education Reforms

    Building an Education Renaissance After a Global Pandemic

    Edited by Fernando M. Reimers ...
    This open access book is a comparative analysis of recent large scale education reforms that broadened curriculum goals to better prepare students for the 21st century. The book examines what governments actually do when they broaden curriculum goals, with attention to the details of implementation. To this end, the book examines system level reforms in six countries at various levels of ... Read more

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