Schooling and Pritchard: Rebirth of Education

Question 1

How can the quality of schooling be improved?

Answer 1

1. fight high teacher absentee (Dufflo Hana 2005)
2. incetives based on test results
3. parent participation
4. school vouchers
5. CCTs (Attanasio et al. 2012)
6. Programs aimed at reducing gender gap

Question 2

Challenges to changing education approach

Answer 2

1. slow pace of change due to bureaucracy
2. lack of evidence based plans
3. isomorphic mimicry
4. belief that spending more is necessary - not case

Question 3

What does Pritchard propose?

Answer 3

bottom up decentralised system that is locally operated, financially flexible, ran professionally
undertake context specific RCTs to see what works and does not
evidence based plan to steepen learning portfolio