The Rebirth of Education
Lant Pritchett
Despite great progress around the world in getting more kids into schools, too many leave without even the most basic skills. In India's rural Andhra Pradesh, for instance, only about one in twenty children in fifth grade can perform basic arithmetic.The problem is that schooling is not the same as learning. In The Rebirth of Education, Lant Pritchett uses two metaphors from nature to explain why. The first draws on Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom's book about the difference between centralized and decentralized organizations, The Starfish and the Spider. Schools systems tend be centralized and suffer from the limitations inherent in top-down designs. The second metaphor is the concept of isomorphic mimicry. Pritchett argues that many developing countries superficially imitate systems that were successful in other nations— much as a nonpoisonous snake mimics the look of a poisonous one.Pritchett argues that the solution is to allow functional systems to evolve locally out of an environment pressured for success. Such an ecosystem needs to be open to variety and experimentation, locally operated, and flexibly financed. The only main cost is ceding control; the reward would be the rebirth of education suited for today's world.
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- ISBN: 9781933286778
- Publication Date: Oct 2013
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Amanda Glassman
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- ISBN: 9781933286891
- Publication Date: Oct 2017
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The Russia File
Daniel S. Hamilton
- Imprint: Center for Transatlantic Relations SAIS
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- ISBN: 9781947661035
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Spyros Sfenthourakis
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- ISBN: 9789925563784
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Athens Berlin: An International Atlas of Pathological Specimens
Nikolaos Kavantzas
- Imprint: Paschalidis Medical Publications
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- ISBN: 9789925575701
- Publication Date: Jan 2021
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Advances in Hydatid Disease
Dimitrios K. Philippou
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- ISBN: 9789963716128
- Publication Date: Jan 2013
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Blended Learning & Flipped Classrooms
Patricia Adams
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- ISBN: 9780940017146
- Publication Date: Dec 2017
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Donald Greive
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- ISBN: 9780940017368
- Publication Date: May 2015
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Daniel S. Hamilton
- Imprint: Center for Transatlantic Relations SAIS
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- ISBN: 9780989029469
- Publication Date: Nov 2017
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Vision 2020 Bosnia and Herzegovina
Sasha Toperich
- Imprint: Center for Transatlantic Relations SAIS
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- ISBN: 9780990772101
- Publication Date: Oct 2017
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Sasha Toperich
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- ISBN: 9780990772125
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Small States Economic Review and Basic Statistics, Volume 21
Small States Economic Review and Basic Statistics is a flagship publication of the Commonwealth Secretariat highlighting the development indicators of Commonwealth Small States and disseminating knowledge of their economic performance.
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- ISBN: 9781785599996
- Publication Date: Jun 2022
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A Future for Small States
This report provides an analysis of key issues concerning small states' security and development. It sets out a series of recommendations to counteract vulnerability arising from such factors as globalization, environmental degradation and global warming, and international crime.
- Imprint: Commonwealth Secretariat
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780850925111
- Publication Date: Jan 1997
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Pollution Control and Waste Management in Developing Countries
Rogers W'O Okot-Uma
A practical view of environmental management, focusing on pollution control and waste management. It records the experience gained through Commonwealth Secretariat regional seminars conducted in Africa over several years. It uses real examples to illustrate the points made.
- Imprint: Commonwealth Secretariat and SFI Publishing
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780850925579
- Publication Date: Jan 2000
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Gender Budgets Make Cents
Debbie Budlender
Providing an understanding of gender responsive budgets, this text is part of the inter-agency programme of the Commonwealth Secretariat, IDRC and UNIFEM. It covers the theoretical framework, the evolution of work in this area, the role of different stakeholders and the lessons learned to date.
- Imprint: Commonwealth Secretariat
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780850926965
- Publication Date: Jan 2002
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The Shaping of Tertiary Education in the Anglophone Caribbean
Vivienne Roberts
As tertiary education in the Caribbean enters a period of expansion and maturity, this book is a timely study into how the sector should evolve if it is to meet its target of increasing enrolment from under 10 to 15 per cent by 2005.
- Imprint: Commonwealth Secretariat
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780850927320
- Publication Date: Jan 2003
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Small Change or Real Change?
Gender equality is essential for sustained economic growth and for democracy, peace and security. This book presents key thinking on a topic that is of international concern: how to ensure that sufficient financial resources are available through aid modalities and from domestic sources to effect the changes to make gender equality a reality.
- Imprint: Commonwealth Secretariat
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780850928662
- Publication Date: Dec 2008
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The Architecture of Lucknow and Oudh, 1722-1856
Banmali Tandan
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9780955788000
- Publication Date: Mar 2008
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Happy Gingras
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780940017511
- Publication Date: Oct 2019
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Julie Smith
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- ISBN: 9780940017559
- Publication Date: Dec 2020
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