Incentives to improve teaching [[electronic resource] ] : lessons from Latin America / / Emiliana Vegas, editor

• Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C., : World Bank, c2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (456 p.)
• Disciplina: 331.2/813711/0098
• Soggetto topico: Teachers - Salaries, etc - Latin America; Rewards and punishments in education - Latin America; School improvement programs - Latin America
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: VegasEmiliana
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Improving Teaching and Learning through Effective Incentives; Figures; 2 A Literature Review of Teacher Quality and Incentives; 3 Are Teachers Well Paid in Latin America and the Caribbean?; Tables; 4 Teachers' Salary Structure and Incentives in Chile; 5 Educational Finance Equalization, Spending, Teacher Quality, and Student Outcomes; 6 Arbitrary Variation in Teacher Salaries; 7 Teacher and Principal Incentives in Mexico; 8 Decentralization of Education, Teacher Behavior, and Outcomes; 9 Teacher Effort and Schooling Outcomes in Rural Honduras ; 10 Teacher Incentives and Student Achievement in Nicaraguan Autonomous Schools11 Political Economy, Incentives, and Teachers' Unions
• Sommario/riassunto: Latin America faces tremendous challenges, particularly those of development, poverty, and inequality. Education is widely recognized as one of the most critical means of defeating these challenges. Democratizing education, by improving both its coverage and quality, is critical to overcoming the social and economic inequality that plagues Latin America. Ensuring that all children have the opportunity to learn critical skills at both primary and secondary level is paramount to overcoming skill barriers that perpetuate underdevelopment and poverty. A growing body of evidence supports the intuit
• Titolo autorizzato: Incentives to improve teaching
• ISBN: 1-280-19920-2; 9786610199204; 0-8213-6216-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910450404603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Directions in development (Washington, D.C.)