UNICEF Education Think Piece #8: School Improvement

UNICEF has commissioned 10 papers and presentations by leading researchers and practitioners to stimulate debate around educational challenges in Eastern and Southern Africa: a region where most children attend school, but many are not learning the basics. While the articles have academic roots, they are not research papers, nor do they represent UNICEF policy. Rather, they are engaging pieces to inspire fresh thinking to improve learning in Eastern and Southern Africa and globally. This eighth Think Piece is focused on School Improvement. The speaker, Steve Baines, recognizes the need to establish a consensus on what school improvement means and how this affects the direction of effort and the allocation of resources. He argues that integrated approaches to school improvement will be adopted, as much through public pressure as through endogenous government actions and that these approaches will avoid repeating the ineffective efforts of the past.

Steve Baines is an education adviser with extensive experience of educational development at national, regional, and local levels in a wide range of countries. He has been concerned with issues of school quality and the conditions and incentives necessary to improve teachers, schools, and education management.

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Read the complete Think Piece on School Improvement: https://www.unicef.org/esa/reports/ed...