Learning About Schools in Development is an unpublished short paper. It briefly discusses a number of links in the chain between school construction and improvements in the quality of life –between construction and enrollment, between enrollment and learning, and between schooling and both economic growth and health outcomes. Given what is suggested by the evidence regarding strength of those links, it asks ‘is education for all a good idea?’ and ‘can we improve the quality of education?’ While it suggests the answer to these two questions is ‘yes,’ that is dependent at the least on a significant, potentially politically complicated, focus on the question of quality.
Charles Kenny
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Charles Kenny writes about global development — what’s working, what isn’t, and how the world can do better. An economist who spent fifteen years at the World Bank, he is now a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development in Washington, DC.
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