Access, quality, and the global learning crisis : insights from Ugandan primary education / Sarah Kabay.

The global learning crisis is one of the most critical challenges facing the world today. Through a case study of over 400 schools and communities in Uganda, this book presents evidence that challenges the key assumption that there is a trade-off between access and quality in improving basic educati...

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Main Author: Kabay, Sarah
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press USA - OSO, 2021.
Edition:First edition.
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505 0 |a Cover -- Access, Quality, and the Global Learning Crisis: Insights from Ugandan Primary Education -- Copyright -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1: Introduction: The Global Learning Crisis and the Access vs. Quality Paradigm -- 2: Defining Access and Quality in International Education -- Introduction -- Access and Quality -- From Access to Quality -- Access and Quality: A Trade-Off? -- 3: Complexity as a Subject and Method in International Education -- Systems, Complexity, and the Global Learning Crisis -- Complexity and Systems as Methodology 
505 8 |a Existing Approaches to Systems and Complexity in International Education -- 4: Ugandan Context and Description of Sample and Data -- Uganda's Primary Education System -- Sample -- Quantitative Data -- Qualitative Data -- 5: Grade Repetition and School Dropout -- Grade Repetition in the United States and Europe -- Grade Repetition in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Repetition in Uganda -- Empirical Analysis: Incidence of Grade Repetition and Dropout -- Empirical Analysis: Repetition and Dropout -- Empirical Analysis: Perceptions of Repetition -- Beyond Wastage: Grade Repetition in a Complex Education System 
505 8 |a 6: Private Primary Schools -- Research on Private Schools in Low-Income Countries -- Factors Associated with Private Primary School Enrollment (Access) -- Differences between Private and Public Schools (Quality) -- Quantitative Measures of Quality and Access -- Private School Enrollment: Descriptive Findings -- Analysis of Transfer -- Comparison of Children's Responses in Private and Government Schools -- School Fees -- Lunch -- Tests -- Teacher Absenteeism -- Test Scores -- Qualitative Results -- Differences between Private and Government Schools 
505 8 |a Private and Public: Distinction or Interdependence? -- Can the Private and Public Sectors Work Together to Improve both Access and Quality? -- 7: Understanding School Fees in Relation to both Access and Quality -- Existing Literature on User Fees -- Ugandan Context and Savings Interventions -- The Savings Intervention and Research Design -- Results of Secondary Analysis -- The Potential and the Threat of School Fees -- 8: Conclusion -- What Have We Learned about Education? -- What Have We Learned about Complexity? -- Conclusion -- Technical Appendix -- Grade Repetition (Chapter 4) 
505 8 |a Private Primary Schools (Chapter 5) -- School Fees (Chapter 6) -- Analytic Plan -- Results -- References -- Index 
520 |a The global learning crisis is one of the most critical challenges facing the world today. Through a case study of over 400 schools and communities in Uganda, this book presents evidence that challenges the key assumption that there is a trade-off between access and quality in improving basic education around the world. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
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