Central America : Education Strategy Paper

The purpose of the Education Strategy Paper is to compare basic education outcomes and indicators in the four Central American countries, which will then be examined and explored in the subsequent chapters. At least five main dimensions of educational performance should be considered in any education sector diagnostic such as this one: (a) educational coverage, measured by enrollment rates; (b) internal efficiency, measured by student cohort survival rates and other indicators; (c) educational quality, measured by the acquisition of cognitive skills; (d) external efficiency, measured by private (and ideally, social) rates of return to schooling at the various levels; and (e) equity, measured by the distribution among urban-rural areas, socio-economic groups and ethnic groups of all the previous indicators. We will make the attempt below to compare the countries along these dimensions, using similar indicators, and, when applicable, triangulating indicators across multiple sources (official Ministry of Education sources and household surveys). When possible, we also provide longitudinal comparisons of these education indicators for each country. A key conclusion of the chapter will be that some urgent priorities remain in spite of several accomplishments undertaken in the past decades, in particular related to quality and learning, primary completion and secondary education coverage.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	World Bank
Format:	Other Education Study biblioteca
Language:	English en_US
Published:	Washington, DC 2005-11
Subjects:	ACCESS TO SECONDARY SCHOOLS, AGE RANGES, AVERAGE EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT, AVERAGE STUDENT-TEACHER RATIO, BASIC EDUCATION, BASIC EDUCATION LEVEL, CENTRAL AMERICA, CENTRAL AMERICAN, COGNITIVE SKILLS, COHORT ANALYSIS, COHORT METHOD, COHORT SURVIVAL, COMMUNITY SCHOOLS, COMPLETION RATES, COMPULSORY BASIC EDUCATION, COMPULSORY EDUCATION, COMPULSORY PRIMARY EDUCATION, DECENTRALIZATION, DROPOUT RATES, EDUCATION CYCLE, EDUCATION EXPENDITURE, EDUCATION INDICATORS, EDUCATION OUTCOMES, EDUCATION QUALITY, EDUCATION REFORM, EDUCATION SECTOR, EDUCATION SPENDING, EDUCATION STRATEGY, EDUCATION SYSTEM, EDUCATION SYSTEMS, EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT, EDUCATIONAL INDICATORS, EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES, EDUCATIONAL PERFORMANCE, EDUCATIONAL PROVISION, EDUCATIONAL QUALITY, EDUCATIONAL STRUCTURE, EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS, EFFECTIVE SCHOOLS, EFFICIENCY OF EDUCATION SYSTEMS, ENROLLMENT RATE, ENROLLMENT RATES, ETHNIC GROUPS, FIRST GRADE, GER, GROSS COMPLETION RATE, GROSS ENROLLMENT, GROSS ENROLLMENT RATES, HIGH DROPOUT, HIGHER GRADES, HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS, HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, INCOME LEVELS, INTAKE RATE, INTERVENTIONS, LATIN AMERICAN, LEARNING, LEARNING OUTCOMES, LEVEL OF EDUCATION, LEVELS OF EDUCATION, LOW ENROLLMENT, LOW ENROLLMENT RATES, MATHEMATICS, NER, NET ENROLLMENT, PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT, PEDAGOGICAL PRACTICE, PEDAGOGICAL PRACTICES, PER CAPITA INCOME, PRE-PRIMARY EDUCATION, PRESCHOOL EDUCATION, PRIMARY COMPLETION, PRIMARY COMPLETION RATE, PRIMARY COMPLETION RATES, PRIMARY CYCLE, PRIMARY LEVEL, PRIMARY SCHOOL, PRIMARY SCHOOLS, PRIMARY SIX, PRIMARY TEACHERS, PRIVATE COSTS, PRIVATE EXPENDITURE, PRIVATE RATES, PUBLIC EXPENDITURE, PUBLIC PRIMARY, RATES OF RETURN, REGIONAL WORKSHOP, REPEATERS, REPETITION, REPETITION RATES, RURAL AREAS, SCHOOL CENSUS, SCHOOL COUNCILS, SCHOOL ENTRANCE AGE, SCHOOL ENVIRONMENTS, SCHOOL LEVEL, SCHOOL MANAGEMENT, SCHOOL MAPPING, SCHOOL STUDENTS, SCHOOL YEAR, SCHOOL-AGE, SCHOOL-AGE POPULATION, SCHOOLING, SCIENCE STUDY, SECONDARY EDUCATION, SECONDARY LEVEL, SECONDARY SCHOOL, SECONDARY SCHOOLS, STUDENT OUTCOMES, STUDENT POPULATION, STUDENT-TEACHER RATIO, TEACHER, TEACHER QUALITY, TEACHERS, TEST SCORES,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/11/6504324/central-america-education-strategy-paper http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8397
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