Barbara Bruns

• Georgetown University

Understanding the politics of education reform is crucial to assess the challenges facing the SDG of quality education. This article surveys the small academic literature on the politics of reform as well as a wide range of empirical research on reform experiences across the world, with an emphasis on recent reforms in Latin America. We focus on te...

Suggests the reasons for teacher accountability reforms and reviews the approaches available, successes, and examples of evaluating incentives to discover design flaws. One type of policy for reform is contract tenure reforms, which does not hire a person into the civil service or grant tenure; normally lasts for one year; occurs in most developing...

A number of countries committed themselves to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), aimed at eradicating extreme poverty, and improving the welfare of people by the year 2015. The book assesses whether universal primary education can be achieved by 2015. The study focuses on the largest low-income countries that are furthest from the goal, home...