Publication: Remedial Education Programs to Accelerate Learning for All
Date
2012-05-01
ISSN
Published
2012-05-01
Author(s)
Schwartz, Analice C.
Abstract
Students from low income background
often fall behind early on their education journey. Without
adequate and timely support to address their learning needs
they continue to perform poorly. Eventually the students
lagging behind, will keep failing to learn the basic
literacy and numeracy skills, and most likely will end up
dropping out of school illiterate. The majority of Global
Education Partnership (GPE) countries have acknowledged in
their education sector plans and strategies the need to
address the problem of low learning levels, and of students
not going efficiently through the public education system,
which has resulted in wastage of financial and human
resources. Ideally interventions that aimed to improve
learning of low performing students should be included in
the framework of a country's educational policies in
alignment with other institutional arrangements such as
teacher training, curriculum, assessment, available
pedagogic materials, instructional time, language of
instruction (when applicable), among others. However, many
of these countries are yet to draft policies that will
specifically focus on helping low performers. Currently, it
can be concluded that academic improvements from remedial
support may help students to pass the grade or yield fast
improvements, however such interventions by themselves may
have not been sufficient to raise achievement at adequate
levels. Remedial education programs will likely be most
effective when included as part of a country's overall
strategic plan to deliver quality education for all of its
students. Overall, the renewed focus on low performers, many
times victims of teacher neglect and other social exclusion
experiences, by the means of directing programs and
resources to address learning gaps is already a huge step
towards achieving learning for all.
Citation
“Schwartz, Analice C.. 2012. Remedial Education Programs to Accelerate Learning for All. GPE Working Paper Series on Learning;No. 11. © World Bank, Washington, DC. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26824 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”