Research Catalog

Title

Strategic prorities for improving access to quality education in the Kurdistan Region -- Iraq / Georges Vernez, Shelly Culbertson, Louay Constant.

Author

Vernez, Georges

Publication

Santa Monica, CA : RAND Corporation, [2014]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Culbertson, Shelly
• Constant, Louay
• Rand Education (Institute) sponsoring body.
• Rand Corporation issuing body.

Description

xxi, 127 pages : illustrations, maps; 28 cm

Summary

• The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) began an ambitious reform of the Kurdistan Region{u2014}Iraq{u2019}s (KRI{u2019}s) kindergarten through grade 12 (K{u2013}12) education system beginning in 2007 in an effort to modernize the curriculum, upgrade school facilities, and raise the quality of instruction. In 2010, RAND was asked to conduct a one-year study to assess the status of the K{u2013}12 system and its reform, and to develop strategic priorities and make practical recommendations for improving access to and quality of education in Kurdistan.^
• In a one-year, multi-method study, RAND researchers analyzed school data from the KRG{u2019}s Ministry of Education, as well as data from other KRI government sources and Iraq; interviewed a wide variety of stakeholders; surveyed teachers; reviewed the new K{u2013}12 curriculum and the curriculum used in the teacher colleges; developed a model to project future student enrollment; used geographic information system mapping to display the distribution of schools and assess the feasibility of proposed actions; and reviewed the literature on best practices and relevant educational policies. The outcome was three strategic priorities for improving the K{u2013}12 system: expand capacity to meet the rapidly growing demand for education, improve the quality of instruction, and strengthen stakeholders{u2019} accountability and incentives.^
• In line with these priorities, RAND recommended that the KRG build new schools and classrooms, hire new teachers, improve teacher training for both practicing and new teachers, increase instructional time, provide high-performing students with broadened learning opportunities, restructure the role of supervisors, redesign the system for evaluating teacher performance, increase the principal{u2019}s role, reward high-performing schools, measure student achievement and progress and make the results public, and involve parents and the public in promoting education. RAND also suggested ways to implement the recommendations that would make the process manageable.

Subject

• Educational change > Iraq > Kurdistān
• Education > Iraq > Kurdistān > Finance
• Education and state > Iraq > Kurdistān

Note

• "MG-1140-1-KRG"
• "The research...was sponsored by the Kurdistan Regional Government and was conducted in RAND Education."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-127).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- The Current K{u2013}12 Education System in the Kurdistan Region{u2014}Iraq -- Strategic Priority One: Expand Capacity to Meet the Rapidly Growing Demand for Education -- Strategic Priority Two: Improve the Quality of Education -- Strategic Priority Three: Strengthening Accountability and Incentives -- Guidelines for Implementing the Recommendations -- Longer-Term Issues for Education in the Kurdistan Region{u2014}Iraq -- Appendix A: Tool for Forecasting the Demand for Primary, Middle, and Secondary Education in the KRI -- Appendix B: Distribution of Out-of-School Students by Sub-District -- Appendix C: Analysis of Alternatives for School Construction in the KRI -- Appendix D: Number of New Classrooms Needed, by Urbanicity and by Level of Education.

ISBN

• 9780833084101
• 0833084100

OCLC

• 874223155
• SCSB-10459742

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library