All blogs tagged with World Bank

VI Cúpula do Brics / Blog do Planalto / CC 2.0

July coverage focused on President Xi Jinping’s tour of Latin America, which included stops in Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, and Cuba.Read more +

Dilma Rousseff participa da Cúpula do G20 / Roberto Stuckert Filho / PR / Agência Brasil

The creation of the New Development Bank, also known as the BRICS bank, was announced at the BRICS summit in Brazil.Read more +

“Kuva 4”/STT-lehtikuva/Finnish Prime Minister's Office/Image use policy

Using the Finnish model of education in Latin America. How can the key components be achieved?Read more +

El Heraldo

An analysis of student examinations worldwide shows some countries' efforts to improve quality go unnoticed due to low scores. Read more +

udual.wordpres.com

Webcast on the importance of and challenges to monitoring student learning, and research on how to best carry out assessments.Read more +

"Achieving World-Class Education in Brazil"

An analysis of Brazilian education and the four recommendations offered to better compete with OECD systems by 2021.Read more +

World Bank

Short video discussing research on teacher policies for the SABER initiative.Read more +

World Bank website

Eight core policy goals of the SABER-teachers program -- analysis and trends across countries.Read more +

PREAL's 2008 publication on education in Haiti

Haiti’s potential for growth and the need for human capital development -- challenges, priorities, and plansRead more +

Image from the World Bank. 

Software that enables users to input pre-existing education information to produce graphs that analyze national education indicators.Read more +

World Bank book argues weak accountability of schools and teachers lowers the quality of public schools, and lists three key reforms.Read more +

Speech previewing World Bank's education strategy, which emphasizes role of education in economic growth and social advance.Read more +

Decentralization and school-based management policies, and their effects on learning outcomes in the developing world.Read more +

Two documents suggest that investing in the early years of poor children is crucial to long-term success.Read more +

Three volumes discuss the features, activities, and uses of establishing national assessments of educational achievement.Read more +