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The Education Program comprises two main pillars:

• Accelerating Achievement of Education for All through Primary/Basic Education
• Developing Education for the Knowledge Society through Post-Basic Education

    

 

 

Across these two pillars, six cross-cutting themes are emphasized:

• Management of Education Reform : addresses the key issues that arise throughout the reform process, and aims at enhancing the capacity to define priorities and ways to initiate and sustains reforms within complex political, social and economical environments.
• Economics and Financing of Education : explores the use of fundamental tools to support education reform and their application to critical education sector issues (for example, alternative financing approaches and public expenditure tracking surveys – PETS).
• Improving Educational Quality : focuses on learning and teaching quality, as well as achieving policy impact at the school and classroom level to, in turn, improve learning outcomes and teacher effectiveness. The component also examines the potential and challenges of ICT, and the ways to provide students with the knowledge and skills necessary to live and work in a knowledge society.
• Education in the Knowledge Society : examines policy strategies that can build country capacity for creating, sharing and using knowledge effectively and for developing skills for innovation. This component is undertaken in partnership with WBI’s Knowledge for Development Program (K4D), and uses analytical studies such as case studies and assessments of client country capacity.
• Governance and Accountability in the Education Sector : disseminates and discusses research findings on education sector decentralization, and provides a venue to discuss country experiences from different regions.
• Education Assessment and the Use of Information in Education Systems : focuses on strengthening student assessment and performance monitoring, with emphasis on key indicators and approaches to national and international assessment.