Factors affecting learning and cost effective schooling in Latin America : Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico /

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Author / Creator:Randall, Laura.
Imprint:Lewiston, N.Y. : E. Mellen, c2005.
Description:vi, 371 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5879216
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ISBN:0773458441
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-354) and indexes.
Table of Contents:
  • Ch. 1. Introduction and executive summary
  • Ch. 2. Primary schools in Argentina / Guillermina Tiramonti and Silvia Duschatzky
  • Ch. 3. Brazil : two educational policies / Ligia Barbosa and Laura da Veiga
  • Ch. 4. The Chilean educational system / Centro de Investigacion y Desarrollo de la Educacion
  • Ch. 5. Primary school in Mexico / Sylvia Schmelkes and Raquel Ahuja
  • Ch. 6. Child and family conditions and characteristics
  • Ch. 7. The classroom
  • Ch. 8. What happens in school
  • Ch. 9. Programs
  • Ch. 10. Cost effectiveness and its implications for policy
  • Ch. 11. Conclusions.