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Crouch, Luis; Merseth, Katherine A. – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2017
This paper highlights patterns in school enrollment indicators that affect the efficiency and effectiveness of education systems in a set of low-income countries: those that have expanded access quickly in the last decade or two, but have not yet absorbed that expansion efficiently. Although the patterns in these indicators are observable in the…
Descriptors: Enrollment Trends, Low Income Groups, Developing Nations, Educational Indicators
Chudgar, Amita; Chandra, Madhur; Iyengar, Radhika; Shanker, Rishikesh – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2015
In addition to basic infrastructure, what school resources are important to improve learning? This question is hard to answer due to lack of availability of appropriate data. Collaboration between researchers at US universities and a large, well-established educational foundation in India enabled this study to overcome the challenge of data…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Educational Resources, Academic Achievement
Alexander, Vivian; Maeda, Yukiko – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2015
This study aims to disentangle the complex relationships among student attributes, school context, and student performance in mathematics and science in Trinidad and Tobago, using the PISA 2009 data. Our findings reveal that schools account for a substantial amount of variation in students' mathematics and science performances. School…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Science Achievement, Case Studies, Socioeconomic Status
Forlin, Chris; Sharma, Umesh; Loreman, Tim; Sprunt, Beth – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2015
The Pacific Island nations are in the process of transforming education to support all learners through the application of more inclusive approaches. In order to measure progress, they are working collaboratively to develop a set of local and contextually applicable indicators for inclusive education. This article reports the initial step in this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Disabilities, Social Attitudes, Attitudes toward Disabilities
Jayaram, Shubha; Engmann, Michelle – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2014
Globally, enormous gains have been made towards the goal of universal primary education, leading to increased demands for secondary education. Consequently, more youth and young adults are now entering the formal and informal labour markets from the secondary level, which makes it important to ensure that secondary schools teach skills relevant to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employment Potential, Job Skills, Skill Development
King, Kenneth – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2014
The article underlines the historic importance of the treatment of skills development, finally, by the Education for All Global Monitoring Report (GMR) team. Among the many challenges in its analysis are the multiple and overlapping meanings of the word skill, and the consequent difficulties of quantifying and monitoring efforts at skills…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Youth Opportunities, Skill Analysis, Definitions
Ishihara-Brito, Reiko – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2013
This paper presents the findings and implications of a qualitative study conducted in Guatemala, which focused on rural, indigenous parents' perceptions of their children's schooling and educational quality. For these parents, the simple fact that their children had improved access to school signifies a satisfactory educational accomplishment;…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Educational Quality, Indigenous Populations, Rural Areas
Schwartzman, Simon – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2013
Starting in the 1970s, Brazil developed a very complex system of quantitative assessments of education at all levels, making extensive use of statistical information and tests, in an effort to improve and maintain the quality of its education. However, with some exceptions, particularly at the graduate level, Brazilian education standards remain…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Statistical Analysis, Educational Quality, Quality Assurance
Sottie, Cynthia Akorfa; Dubus, Nicole; Sossou, Marie-Antoinette – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2013
The government of Ghana has designed various initiatives to achieve the Millennium Development Goals on education and the Education for All goals. Despite these initiatives, student outcomes continue to be poorer than desired. Although access to education has improved, student dropout remains a problem and student scores on achievement tests…
Descriptors: Mentors, Peer Counseling, Parent Participation, Equal Education
Amadio, Massimo – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2009
This exploratory analysis of inclusive education issues in Latin America and the Caribbean is based on a series of documents produced in the framework of the organization of the 48th session of the International Conference on Education, in particular the National Reports presented at the Conference as well as country reports presented at…
Descriptors: Inclusive Schools, Foreign Countries, Content Analysis, Mainstreaming
Neri, Marcelo; Buchmann, Gabriel – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2008
Active participation of Brazilian civil society, coupled with the 2007 education development plan launched by the Brazilian government, provides an interesting example of the influences of the Dakar Goals. The two domestic initiatives share the same name, spirit and direction proposed in Dakar 2000. Here we analyze changes in the Brazilian…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Foreign Countries, Elementary Education, Goal Orientation
Govinda, Rangachar – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2008
About 60 years ago India established a policy of providing free and compulsory education to all children and began transforming the elite education system inherited from its colonial past into a mass education program. The task became a race against a rapidly growing population, which outstripped the pace at which children could be enrolled and…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Compulsory Education, Educational Objectives, Foreign Countries
Riddell, Abby – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2008
Over the past decade there has been increasing concern with aid effectiveness, and, more generally, development effectiveness. New ways of delivering aid have been developed, including sector-wide approaches and direct budget support. This paper reports on the progress that has been made through some of these new modalities of aid to education, as…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Finance Reform, Educational Finance, Technical Assistance
Benavot, Aaron – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2008
After briefly describing the emergence and evolution of the global movement toward Education for All (EFA), the Introduction discusses the difficulties of employing target goals to bring about significant policy change and educational transformation. The article then presents a comprehensive overview of the uneven progress towards EFA since 2000,…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Assessment, Educational Indicators, Educational Policy
Caoli-Rodriguez, Rhona B. – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2008
The Philippines has experienced a setback in its progress towards EFA 2015 Goals. In particular, a decline in primary and secondary education performance indicators and a widening gap between boys' and girls' performance were noted. While the present policy environment in the country has been conducive to education reforms, a lack of political…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Educational Innovation, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
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