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Effective schools in developing countries

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

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Additional authors
  1. Levin, Henry M.
  2. Lockheed, Marlaine E.
Description
  1. v, 179 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.
Summary
  1. 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
  1. [The Stanford series on education & public policy]
Uniform title
  1. Stanford series on education and public policy ; 14.
Subject
  1. Education, Elementary > Developing countries > Case studies
  2. School management and organization > Developing countries > Case studies
  3. Education, Elementary
  4. School management and organization
  5. Aufsatzsammlung
  6. Qualitätssteigerung
  7. Schule
  8. Developing countries
  9. Entwicklungsländer
Genre/Form
  1. Case studies
Contents
  1. 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.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Note
  1. Series statement from jacket.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.