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Meeting the Challenges of Secondary Education in Latin America and East Asia : Improving Efficiency and Resource Mobilization.
In a context of increased primary school enrollment rates, secondary education is appearing as the next big challenge for Latin American and East Asian countries. This report seeks to undertake a detailed diagnostic of secondary education in these two regions, understand some of the main constraints...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Herndon :
World Bank Publications,
2006.
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| Colección: | Directions in Development.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Executive Summary; Introduction; Context, Purpose, and General Approach; Specific Focus, Conceptual Framework, and Methodological Approach; Structure of the Report; Chapter 1 Trends and Challenges in Latin American and East Asian Secondary Education; Introduction; Secondary Education Structure; Provision of Secondary Education: Public and Private, Academic and Technical/Vocational; Governance; Secondary Education Coverage; Internal Efficiency; The Quality of Secondary Education; The Validity of Access and Quality Trade-Offs.
- Indicators of Educational Equity in Secondary EducationDemand and Supply Constraints and Opportunities for Secondary Education; Conclusion; Chapter 2 Demand for Secondary Education in Latin America and East Asia; Introduction; Making Labor Markets Work for Young People; Patterns in average labor market returns; Trends in returns from and demand for secondary education; Heterogeneity in returns and labor market distortions; Increasing returns and school quality; Uncertainty about future returns from education; Information on Schools for Better Choices and Accountability.
- Incentives to Alleviate Credit ConstraintsThe role of credit constraints; Policies to alleviate credit constraints; Incentives to Address Competing Options; Incentives to alter the choice between school and work; Changing the relative price of schooling options: School vouchers; Conclusion; Chapter 3 Secondary Education Finance in Latin America and East Asia: Challenges and Opportunities in the Next Decade; Introduction; The State of the Secondary Education Sector: Demographic and Economic Trends, Enrollments, and Current Finances; Demographic trends, economic factors, and enrollment rates.
- Summing It Up: What Are the Shared Characteristics among Countries That Have Successfully Expanded Their Secondary EducatioChapter 4 Measuring and Improving Efficiency of Secondary Education in Latin America and East Asia; Introduction; Efficiency/Production Frontier Analysis; What do we mean by efficiency?; Main results; Efficiency Constraints and Efficiency-Enhancing Interventions; Impact of expenditure allocation; Pedagogical and curricular practices; Management practices; Improvements in internal efficiency; Conclusions; Annex 1.1 Structure of Secondary Education.