Indonesia : How to Get Parents’ Attention
A growing number of countries are reforming how schools are managed and are working to involve parents and com¬munities more directly into the school management process. The idea behind school-based man¬agement reform is that devolving responsibili...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC
2015
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/09/25021955/indonesia-parents’-attention http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23341 |
| Summary: | A growing number of countries are
reforming how schools are managed and are working to involve
parents and com¬munities more directly into the school
management process. The idea behind school-based man¬agement
reform is that devolving responsibility to schools and to
those who use the schools will improve ac¬countability,
transparency and ensure that resources are allocated
properly. In this way, the quality of education will improve
and so will learning. However, evidence on the
effective¬ness of school-based management remains mixed and
parental involve¬ment is often weak. Evaluating different
approaches for strengthening account¬ability and
transparency in education is critical to making schools
successful to improve learning. In Indonesia, the World Bank
worked with the government to set up and evaluate
alter¬native ways to improve parents’ knowledge of and
involvement in the management of money that the government
gives to schools for operational costs. The evaluation found
that direct approaches, like inviting parents to a meeting
or sending text messages, led to improvement in parental
knowledge and ac¬tions, while sending home brochures and
letters didn’t lead to any changes. As countries, including
Indonesia, continue to rely on school-based management to
improve accountability and learning, the evaluation shows
that getting parents and communities involved, and making
sure they are informed, may require more intensive efforts. |
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