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Effective schools in developing countries

Title
Effective schools in developing countries / Henry M. Levin and Marlaine E. Lockheed, editors.
Publication
London ; Washington, D.C. : Falmer Press, 1993.

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Additional Authors
  • Levin, Henry M.
  • Lockheed, Marlaine E.
Description
v, 179 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.
Summary
Sheds light on how to create good schools for children of the poor. It draws on the research of international scholars and uses a variety of research methods to capture features of effective schools. Eight case studies cover Brazil, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Ghana, Columbia, Thailand, Burundi and the USA.
Series Statement
[The Stanford series on education & public policy]
Uniform Title
Stanford series on education and public policy ; 14.
Subject
  • Education, Elementary > Developing countries > Case studies
  • School management and organization > Developing countries > Case studies
  • Education, Elementary
  • School management and organization
  • Aufsatzsammlung
  • Qualitätssteigerung
  • Schule
  • Developing countries
  • Entwicklungsländer
Genre/Form
Case studies
Note
  • Series statement from jacket.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Creating effective schools / Marlaine E. Lockheed and Henry M. Levin -- The conditions of primary education in developing countries / Marlaine E. Lockheed -- How can schooling help improve the lives of the poorest? The need for radical reform / Nicholas Bennet -- The new school program : more and better primary education for children in rural areas in Colombia / Vicky Colbert, Clemencia Chiappe and Jairo Arboleda -- CIEP: a democratic school model for educating economically disadvantaged students in Brazil? / Ana Cristina Leonardos -- Improving educational effectiveness in a plantation school: the case of Gonakelle school in Sri Lanka / Angela Little and R. Sivasithambaram -- Local initiatives and their implications for a multi-level approach to school improvement in Thailand / Mun C. Tsang and Christopher Wheeler -- Providing quality education when resources are scarce: strategies for increasing primary schools effectiveness in Burundi / Thomas Owen Esisemon, John Schwille, Robert Prouty, Francis Ukobizoba, Deogratias Kana, Gilbert Manirabona -- Accelerated schools in the United States : Do they have relevance for developing countries / Henry M. Levin.
ISBN
  • 0750701730
  • 9780750701730
LCCN
92042862
OCLC
  • ocm27035493
  • 27035493
  • SCSB-8916323
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library