Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures, Tables, Boxes, and Appendices vii
4. Foreword xi
5. Preface xvii
6. Biographies xxiii
7. Part One: Diagnostics: Chronic Quality Deficit in South Asia’s Basic Education
8. Introduction 1
9. 1 Growth, Well-Being, and Basic Education 7
10. 2 From “Education for All” to SDG4 18
11. 3 Assessing Primary School Performance in Reading and Mathematics 36
12. 4 Why Does Low Quality Persist in South Asian Schools? 54
13. 5 The Sri Lanka Exception and Its Stubborn Challenges 76
14. Part Two: Teachers: The Pivot of Educational Change
15. Introduction 89
16. 6 The Education Workforce – Numbers and More 93
17. 7 Who Should Be Teachers – Features of a High-Quality Education Workforce 98
18. 8 How Teachers Can Be Professionals – Preparing and Orienting the Education Workforce 114
19. 9 Governance and Management of the Education Workforce 126
20. 10 Ethics and Values Education and Teachers 145
21. Part Three: The Political Economy of Educational Reform
22. Introduction 157
23. 11 Private Schools and Public Good 161
24. 12 Toward a New Education Governance Paradigm 180
25. 13 Political Economy of Education – Leveraging Change 205
26. References 217
27. Index 229