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	Podcast:		EconTalk Archives, 2013
	Episode:		Lant Pritchett on Education in Poor Countries
	Category:		Education
	Duration:		01:04:48
	Publish Date:		2013-12-02 05:30:00
	Description:		Lant Pritchett of Harvard University and author of The Rebirth of Education talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in the book. Pritchett argues that increases in years of schooling for students in poor countries do not translate into gains in education, learning, or achievement. This tragic situation is due to corruption and poor incentives in the top-down educational systems around the world. School reforms that imitate successful systems fail to take into account the organic nature of successful school systems that cause various external attributes to be effective. The conversation concludes with a discussion of school systems in rich countries and possible lessons for reform that might apply there.
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