http://incentiveseverywhere.com/2009/10/24/incentive-structures-and-schools-in-poor-countries/ What works in Psychology Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:25:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://incentiveseverywhere.com/2009/10/24/incentive-structures-and-schools-in-poor-countries/#comment-611 Sun, 08 Aug 2010 13:37:54 +0000 http://grantcoulson.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/incentive-structures-and-schools-in-poor-countries/#comment-611 [...] from James Tooley, who wrote ,Tooley, J. (2009). The Beautiful Tree. Washington, DC, Cato Institute referred to here several times a few months ago. The following is from a recent article. The graphs refer to performance data from [...]

]]> http://incentiveseverywhere.com/2009/10/24/incentive-structures-and-schools-in-poor-countries/#comment-22 Sun, 25 Oct 2009 08:39:56 +0000 http://grantcoulson.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/incentive-structures-and-schools-in-poor-countries/#comment-22 John,
When someone becomes a government expert, so called, he/she falls into the trap of believing that assumptive knowledge is real and no more work need be done. Private enterprises, including private schools, must try really hard not to be better. The trap is not to use the same assumptive knowledge base, which is merely fable agreed upon, as the official expert, then you’ll always be wrong.
Cheers, Grant

]]> http://incentiveseverywhere.com/2009/10/24/incentive-structures-and-schools-in-poor-countries/#comment-21 Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:22:52 +0000 http://grantcoulson.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/incentive-structures-and-schools-in-poor-countries/#comment-21 Spot on, Grant! I like James Tooley’s stuff very much.
The sooner it’s made easier for parents to set up schools in UK, the better. Anything to shake the complacency out of underperforming schools, each one of which spells disaster for the many children they let down.
John

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