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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.

Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781933286778
Publication Date: Oct 2013
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Biogeography and Biodiversity of the Aegean

Spyros Sfenthourakis

Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9789925563784
Publication Date: Nov 2018
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Athens Berlin: An International Atlas of Pathological Specimens

Nikolaos Kavantzas

Imprint: Paschalidis Medical Publications
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9789925575701
Publication Date: Jan 2021
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Advances in Hydatid Disease

Dimitrios K. Philippou

Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9789963716128
Publication Date: Jan 2013
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Teaching Strategies & Techniques for Adjunct Faculty

Donald Greive

Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780940017436
Publication Date: Mar 2018
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Estrategias y Técnicas Especializadas de Enseñanza para Profesores Universitarios

Donald Grieve

Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780940017498
Publication Date: Dec 2020
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Estratégias e Técnicas de Ensino Especializadas para Professores Universitários

Donald Grieve

Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780940017504
Publication Date: Dec 2020
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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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The New Frontiers of Europe

Daniel S. Hamilton

A Center for Transatlantic Relations SAIS and The Calouste Gulbenkain Foundation publicationThe European Union has expanded from 15 to 25 countries, with more candidates knocking on the door. This new diversity both enriches the EU and challenges its cohesion. Is a bigger EU a better EU? Where does "Europe" end? The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation asked prominent authors from EU nations and important neighbors to examine the implications and consequences of European Union enlargement. The New Frontiers of Europe offers a range of views on the opportunities and challenges posed by these historical changes.Contributors include: Jean-Louis Bourlanges, Boris Cizelj, Antione Compagnon, Therese Delpech, Ragip Duran, Michael Emerson, Yegor Gaidar, Laszlo Halpern, Daniel S. Hamilton, Josef Jarab, Antonio Monteiro, Jiri Pehe, Jorge Sampaio, Roxanne Silberman, Jean-Claude Trichet, Emilio Rui Vilar, and Michael P. Zuckert.

Imprint: Center for Transatlantic Relations SAIS
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780975332597
Publication Date: Sep 2005
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Fighting Terrorist Financing

Anne C. Richard

International and European regional organizations are playing an important role in combating terrorist financing. Underneath news reports of transatlantic tensions and arguments is a significant and largely successful multilateral effort, one that forms the basis for a common international approach to the problem. This book explains how use of common conventions, standards (e.g., the Financial Action Task Force's standards), and approaches by many different international, regional, and specialized institutions is a major step forward in the fight. Author Anne Richard recommends expanding and deepening these efforts across Europe and in neighboring regions. The book also calls for improving methods used to fight terrorist financing.

Imprint: Center for Transatlantic Relations SAIS
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780976643401
Publication Date: Feb 2006
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