Incluye bibliografía.

1. Introduction -- 2. The provision of textbooks and implementation of textbook programs, an overview -- 3. The design of textbook projects -- 4. Using textbooks to improve the quality of education -- 5. Public and private textbook publishing in the developing world -- 6. Textbook development in the United States -- 7. Copyright -- 8. The raw material: paper -- 9. Publishing for schools in the Federal Republic of Germany, France, the United Kingdom and the United States -- 10. The Indian textbook industry -- 11. Mexico's free textbook program -- 12. The Philippines -- 13. textbook project in Lesotho -- 14. Regional development of textbooks -- 15. Will textbooks be replaced by new information technologies? -- 16. Computers in the cclassroom.

This volume discusses the major options decision makers face when dealing with teacher career and remuneration policies. Most of the papers were prepared for a seminar on teacher costs and effectiveness organized by the Economic Development Institute (EDI) of the World Bank. Participants holding senior posts represented countries from all regions of the developing and the developed world and contributed their views and experience. Like the seminar, the book does not attempt to present ready-made solutions to the complicated and unique problems each country faces. It does, however, attempt to raise common issues and examine the most critical policy choices related to improving the performance of education systems. Some issues are unique to developing countries, as the authors point out. Many problems, however, are shared equally by the industrial countries, so a few papers analyzing the situation in the industrial countries are also included. The book deals with a central question: how can remuneration and managerial policies help improve teacher effectiveness? Three major lessons emerge from the experience of wealthier countries that seem to be valid for the developing world as well: 1) to retain a good teaching force, countries must make sizable investments; 2) in most countries teacher shortages are directly related to decreasing salaries; and 3) motivating the teaching force and providing monetary and nonmonetary incentives for teachers to improve their performance is a matter of concern regardless of a country ' s level of development.

Donación in memoriam Dr. José Delfino