Informative Reading:The Road Not Traveled: Education Reform in the Middle East and Africa

The Road Not Traveled: Education Reform in the Middle East and Africa. MENA Development Report. World Bank. Online February 2008. … traces the successes and the challenges facing the development of education to identify promising education reform options for the future. … emphasizes the central role of incentives and public accountability to meet sector goals. Most reforms in the region have attempted to engineer changes in the education system: building schools, hiring teachers, and writing curricula. The success of future reforms will require instead changes in the behavior of key education actors—teachers, administrators, and educational authorities. This is the road not traveled in the education sector. …