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Rebirth of Education : Schooling Ain't Learning

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 system
eBook, English, 2013
Center for Global Development, 2013
dissertations
1 online resource
9781299991163, 9781933286785, 9781933286778, 1299991165, 1933286784, 1933286776
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Print version:
Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Information; Table of Cotents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction: From Universal Schooling to Universal Learning; Schooling Goals versus Education Goals; More Schooling Alone Won't Necessarily Give an Education; More of the Same is Just More of the Same; Camouflage of the Spider and Dangers of Centralized School Systems; Why Spiders Came to Dominate Schooling; The Rebirth of Education as Starfish Ecosystems of Educators; References; Data Sources; Index; Back Cover