Table of Contents
1 Creativing Effective Schools Marlaine E Lockheed and Henry M Levin. 2 The Condition of Primary Education in Developing Countries Marlaine E Lockheed 3 How Can Schooling Help Improve the Lives of the Poorest? Nicholas Bennett 4 The New School Program: More and Better Primary Education for Children in Rural Areas in Colombia Vicky Colbert, Clemencia Chiappe and Jairo Arboleda 5 CIEP: A Democratic School Model for Educating Economically Disadvantaged Students in Brazil? Ana Cristina Leonardos 6 Improving Educational Effectiveness in a Plantation School: The Case of the Gonakelle School in Sri Lanka Angela Little and R Sivasithambaram 7 Local Initiatives and Their Implications for a Multi-Level Approach to School Improvement in Thailand Mun C Tsang and Christopher Wheeler 8 Providing Quality Education When Resources are Scarce: Strategies for Increasing Primary School Effectiveness in Burundi Thomas Owen Eisemon, John Schwille, Robert Prouty, Francis Ukobizoba, Deogratias Kana, Gilbert Manirabona. 9 Accelerated Schools in the United States: Do They Have Relevance for Developing Countries? Henry M Levin. Index.