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Development report 2018, learning to realize education's promise, World Bank

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Every year, the World Bank's World Development Report takes on a topic of central importance to global development. The 2018 Report, Learning to Realize Education's Promise, is the first ever devoted entirely to education. This title explains that education has long been critical for human welfare, but is even more so in a time of rapid economic change

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Development report 2018

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learning to realize education's promise

Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Overview: learning to realize education's promise -- The three dimensions of the learning crisis -- How to realize education's promise: three policy responses -- Learning to realize education's promise -- Part I. Education's promise: Chapter 1. Schooling, learning, and the promise of education -- Part II. The learning crisis:; Chapter 2. The great schooling expansion - and those it has left behind; Chapter 3. The many faces of the learning crisis; Chapter 4. To take learning seriously, start by measuring it -- Part III. Innovations and evidence for learning: Chapter 5. There is no learning without prepared, motivated learners; Chapter 6. Teacher skills and motivation both matter (though many education systems act like they don't); Chapter 7. Everything else should strengthen the teacher-learner interaction; Chapter 8. Build on foundations by linking skills training to jobs -- Part IV. Making the system work for learning at scale: Chapter 9. Education systems are misaligned with learning; Chapter 10. Unhealthy politics drives misalignments; Chapter 11. How to escape low-learning traps