Growing Smarter in East Asia and Pacific (News and Research 85)

Yesterday we launched the East Asia and Pacific Flagship, Growing Smarter: Learning and Equitable Development in East Asia and Pacific.

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Home to seven of the top ten performing education systems in the world, East Asia and Pacific has a lot to teach other countries and regions. Among the drivers of success that Growing Smarter highlights:

Align institutions to ensure basic conditions for learning
Concentrate effective, equity-minded public spending on basic education
Ensure children are ready to learn in school
Select and support teachers throughout their careers to allow them to focus on the classroom
Assess students to diagnose issues and inform instruction

I had the pleasure of introducing the report during the media call (from Jakarta, and connecting teams from Cambodia, China, Philippines, Vietnam and Mongolia) and during the event in Jakarta (part of the Voyage to Indonesia series). 000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000a.jpg

There has already been intense follow up and requests for more knowledge sharing. For instance, the Ministry of Education of Cambodia asked his team to organize a workshop to discuss on how to use the report to inform Bank projects and dialogue.

In China, the participants suggested that we do more events connecting countries more often. Not only do they want to share the Chinese experience, they also want to get receive feedback and learn from other countries.

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