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Download full textCarnoy, Martin; Torres, Carlos – 1992
In the 1960s and 1970s, steady economic growth helped the Costa Rican government expand its education system rapidly. The 1979 oil shocks, the U.S. 1981-82 recession, and other factors ended this prosperity and exposed the fragility of Costa Rica's late 1970s debt-financed development. To restore economic growth, new economic policies were…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Conservatism, Developing Nations, Economic Change
Nielsen, Dean – 1995
Multigrade classes have been recognized as part of elementary education for many years, but their special needs have been largely ignored. This manual focuses on the survey research that should predate the design of instructional management strategies in multigrade classrooms. It describes rapid and reliable ways to collect information about the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Techniques, Data Collection, Developing Nations
Lewin, Keith; Caillods, Francoise – 2001
This book explores the problems and issues of secondary-school financing in developing countries. It outlines the rationale for expanding secondary education, investigates under what conditions it might be possible to do so at sustainable cost levels, presents case studies of secondary-school financing, and offers policy recommendations. The first…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Community Support, Costs, Developing Nations
