Decentralization of Education: Teacher Management, Volume 292As part of education and public sector reforms, many countries are decentralizing the financing and administration of education services to regional, local, or school levels. This report explores what can be learned in decentralizing teacher management from international experience. In particular, it examines what has prompted governments to decentralize teacher management functions, how they have done so, and which decentralization mechanisms have been most effective. The report aims to help guide policymakers in refining strategies that will improve teaching and learning in the classroom. |
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Page 59 - Nepal, but one has to look to industrial countries such as the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand to find examples on a national scale.
Page 2 - We identify the factors that seem to influence success or failure, the gaps in existing knowledge, and research priorities for the future.
Page 6 - The central level controls teacher preparation, establishes staffing levels, funds teacher salaries, and sets standards for teacher qualifications and pedagogical performance.
Page 19 - Amount of lime spent to teach each subject. Question 4: How the school budget is spent. Question 5: Teacher selection and promotion. Question 6: Teachers' salaries and working conditions.
Page 2 - In particular, we examine what has prompted governments to decentralize their teacher management functions, how they have done so, and which decentralization mechanisms have been most effective.
Page 43 - In 1996 member states of the International Labour Organization and the United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organization...
Page 39 - ... government to shift responsibility for unpopular or difficult decisions onto communities and parents, while retaining real power over such matters at the center. "The market wolf in democratic sheep's clothing" is how Phillip Capper, a New Zealand commentator, has described those who engage in such efforts (Capper 1994).
Page 45 - Teachers were simply not convinced of the need for a radical overhaul of the system, and for the first time in fifty years, teachers in western Australia went on strike.
Page 50 - Bhutan announced in 1992 that only the best trained national teachers would be sent to community schools.
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