Sunday, May 10, 2015

Making Schools Work: New Evidence on Accountability Reforms

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Making Schools Work


Contents:

Chapter 1 Motivation and Framework

  • Service delivery failure in the developing world
  • Three core strategies for more accountable education systems
  • Accountability and evidence

Chapter 2 Information for Accountability

  • How information can increase accountability - and outcomes
  • Information for accountability in high-income countries
  • Information for accountability in middle- and low-income countries
  • Evaluating the impact of information-for-accountability interventions
  • What have we learned?
  • Conclusion: Beyond proof of concept

Chapter 3 School-Based Management

  • Decentralization in school-based management
  • Toward a theory of school-based management
  • Assessing the evidence
  • Conclusion

Chapter 4 Making Teachers Accountable

  • Teacher accountability reforms: Why?
  • Recent global experience with teacher accountability reforms
  • Contact tenure reforms
  • Pay-for-performance reforms
  • Designing teacher accountability reforms
  • Summary and conclusions
  • Annex: Rating the design features of pay-for-performance programs

Chapter 5 Making Schools Work Through Accountability Reforms

  • Information-for-accountability strategies
  • School-based management strategies
  • Teachers contracting and pay-for-performance strategies
  • Linking accountability reforms
  • External validity: From evaluated programs to national reforms
  • The political economy of service delivery reform
  • Future directions
 

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