Expanding Opportunities and Building Competencies for Young People: A New Agenda for Secondary EducationWorld Bank Publications, 2005 M01 1 - 300 pages In a global development community where gains and successes are always hard-won, providing youngsters with a dynamic education that takes them from primary through secondary to tertiary education and beyond and that helps spur economic growth is surely one of the best investments a country can make, especially when it applies equally to girls and boys. The challenges facing developing countries and transition economies are twofold: to increase access to secondary schooling for all young people and, at the same time, to improve the quality and relevance of secondary education. These challenges must be met in the complicating but also potentially enabling environment of globalization and the technology-based knowledge society. Secondary education is the highway between primary schooling, tertiary education, and the labor market. Its ability to connect the different destinations and to take young people where they want to go in life is crucial. This highway can constrict the expansion of educational attainment and opportunity, or it can open up pathways for students' advancement. 'Expanding Opportunities and Building Competencies for Young People' explores the key issues facing secondary education in the 21st century. Based on surveys of education specialists around the world, the "tried and true" elements of the policy framework presented here will assist decisionmakers in developing countries and transition economies as they make plans to expand, reform, and transform their secondary education systems. |
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... Managing the Political-Professional and Regulations Affecting Access and Parental Decisions Central-Local Tensions 167 168 172 182 188 The Organizational Challenges of Managing Secondary Schools 190 Traditional Organizing CONTENTS v.
... Managing the Political-Professional and Regulations Affecting Access and Parental Decisions Central-Local Tensions 167 168 172 182 188 The Organizational Challenges of Managing Secondary Schools 190 Traditional Organizing CONTENTS v.
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... Parents and Communities 203 Conclusion Notes 204 206 Epilogue: Rethinking Secondary Education 207 Is It Just More of the Same? The Case for Transforming Secondary Education Policy and Practice 208 Trade-Offs in Secondary Education ...
... Parents and Communities 203 Conclusion Notes 204 206 Epilogue: Rethinking Secondary Education 207 Is It Just More of the Same? The Case for Transforming Secondary Education Policy and Practice 208 Trade-Offs in Secondary Education ...
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... parent base makes “the community” harder to define. • Less political commitment to universal access, particularly at the upper secondary level. Most compulsory and many “free” education laws do not cover upper secondary education. • The ...
... parent base makes “the community” harder to define. • Less political commitment to universal access, particularly at the upper secondary level. Most compulsory and many “free” education laws do not cover upper secondary education. • The ...
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... parents and from the prevailing culture, gang culture, disaffection with schooling, and other characteristics that, again, might undermine the notion of com- munity and hence the options for community-based finance. • Less parental ...
... parents and from the prevailing culture, gang culture, disaffection with schooling, and other characteristics that, again, might undermine the notion of com- munity and hence the options for community-based finance. • Less parental ...
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... parental anxiety and even give rise to corruption and fraud when it comes to high-stakes examinations and other screening devices. Paradoxically, despite the centrality of secondary education in the contemporary political arena and the ...
... parental anxiety and even give rise to corruption and fraud when it comes to high-stakes examinations and other screening devices. Paradoxically, despite the centrality of secondary education in the contemporary political arena and the ...
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Page 167 - The citizen should be moulded to suit the form of government under which he lives.
Page 76 - That education should be regulated by law and should be an affair of state is not to be denied, but what should be the character of this public education, and how young persons should be educated, are questions which remain to be considered.
Page 76 - For mankind are by no means agreed about the things to be taught, whether we look to virtue or the best life. Neither is it clear whether education is more concerned with intellectual or with moral virtue. The existing practice is perplexing; no one knows on what principle we should proceed — should the useful in life, or should virtue, or should the higher knowledge, be the aim of our training; all three opinions have been entertained.
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Page 75 - A cluster is a geographically proximate group of interconnected companies and associated institutions in a particular field, linked by commonalities and complementarities.
Page 235 - Pedagogical content knowledge also includes an understanding of what makes the learning of specific topics easy or difficult: the conceptions and preconceptions that students of different ages and backgrounds bring with them to the learning of those most frequently taught topics and lessons.
Page 169 - One point that deserves attention here is that during the process of transformation, the state does not "go away" in the Chinese context. Rather, the nature of the work it does has changed, broadly speaking, "from carrying out most of the work of the co-ordination of education itself to determining where the work will be done and by whom".'49...
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