World Bank Launches Education Publications Database

World Bank Launches Education Publications Database

This database was created to provide a single, comprehensive means of access to the Bank's recent publications on education to help users quickly and easily find the documents most relevant to their work and interests.

Learning about Schools in Development by Charles Kenny

Learning about Schools in Development

(CGDEV Working Paper 236)
December 2010

There has been considerable progress in school construction and enrollment worldwide. Paying kids to go to  school can help overcome remaining demand-side barriers to enrollment. Nonetheless, the quality of education appears very poor across the developing world, limiting development impact. Thus we should measure and promote learning not schooling. Conditional cash transfers to students on the basis of attendance and scores, school choice, decentralization combined with published test results, and teacher pay based on attendance and performance may help. But learning outcomes are primarily affected by the broader environment in which students live, suggesting a learning agenda that stretches far beyond education ministries.

Global Children's Survey Finds What Children Want Is An Education

Give them a dollar or make them president and what would they do? Most children across the world say their first order of business would be to improve education by building schools, providing school supplies and increasing access to education for all children. Their next priority would be providing food and water. Almost half said they would spend their dollar on food or water, ahead of clothes, toys and sports.

These findings are taken from the ChildFund Alliance global children's survey, Small Voices, Big Dreams*, released this week in recognition of Universal Children's Day (20 November). The survey polled 3,000 children aged 10 to 12 from 30 developing countries across the world - from Afghanistan to Zambia - as well as 300 children from New Zealand, Australia and the United States.

McKinsey & Company Education Report 2010: "How the world's most improved school systems keep getting better"

How the world's most improved school systems keep getting better

"How does a school system with poor performance become good? And how does one with good performance become excellent?
Our latest education report is the follow-up to the 2007 publication "How the world's best performing school systems come out on top," in which we examined the common attributes of high-performing school systems.
We compiled what we believe is the most comprehensive analysis of global school system reform ever assembled. This report identifies the reform elements that are replicable for school systems everywhere as well as what it really takes to achieve significant, sustained, and widespread gains in student outcomes.
In this new report, "How the world's most improved school systems keep getting better," we analyzed twenty systems from around the world, all with improving but differing levels of performance, examining how each has achieved significant, sustained, and widespread gains in student outcomes, as measured by international and national assessments.
Based on over 200 interviews with system stakeholders and analysis of some 600 interventions carried out by these systems this report identifies the reform elements that are replicable for school systems elsewhere as they move from poor to fair to good to great to excellent performance."

La apuesta de invertir para una mejor educación: Evaluando la Ley de Financiamiento Educativo en la Argentina, 2006-2010.

El Programa de Educación de CIPPEC elaboró un informe que evalúa la implementación y el cumplimiento de los objetivos de financiamiento y educativos establecidos por la Ley de Financiamiento Educativo (LFE) en la Argentina, en el período 2006-2010. El documento analiza el cumplimiento de la ley teniendo en cuenta las metas y los medios para alcanzarlas definidas en la legislación; los mecanismos existentes para apoyar la aplicación de la LFE; la forma en que se asignan los recursos entre las provincias y la difusión de información sobre la aplicación de la ley en las provincias argentinas.

Closing the talent gap: Attracting and retaining top-third graduates to careers in teaching

McKinsey & Company has just published a report on how to attract young people with strong academic backgrounds to the teaching profession. Although the report is aimed at the United States, it outlines how three of the world’s top-performing education systems, (Finland, Singapore and South Korea) manage to recruit 100 percent of their incoming teachers from the top third of their academic cohort.


Explanations include making admission to teacher training programs—and to teaching positions—highly selective, establishing rigorous performance management systems, offering opportunities for professional advancement, increasing the prestige of the teaching profession and offering competitive salaries. The report cautions that success in any particular country will require considerable research and experimentation.

Égalité des genres dans l’éducation et par l’éducation Guide de poche de l’INEE sur le genre

Les urgences telles que les conflits violents et les catastrophes naturelles sont ressenties de façon profondément différente par les filles, les femmes, les garçons et les hommes. Ils sont confrontés à des risques différents, réagissent de façon différente à des situations de stress et ont des capacités différentes pour affronter les évènements de la crise.

Une éducation de qualité pour tous est un droit humain fondamental, un mécanisme de protection et un catalyseur pour le développement personnel et social. Dans les situations de crise, il est crucial d'avoir un système éducatif tenant compte du genre pour que les apprenants et les apprenantes de tous les âges aient accès à des possibilités éducatives de qualité, pertinentes et protectrices.