TY - BOOK ID - 47689756 TI - A comparative analysis of school-based management in Central America AU - Di Gropello, Emanuela. AU - World Bank. PY - 2006 SN - 0821365258 9780821365250 9786610305308 1280305304 0821365266 PB - Washington, DC : World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - School management KW - Central America KW - Education KW - Schools KW - Decentralization KW - Public institutions KW - Public schools UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:47689756 AB - This paper provides a comparative analysis of school-based management reforms in four Central American countries (EDUCO in El Salvador, PRONADE in Guatemala, PROHECO in Honduras, and Centros Autonomos in Nicaragua). It starts by providing a characterization of the models and then reviews how they have expanded community participation and empowerment and school decisionmaking autonomy. It then continues by analyzing the impact of community and school empowerment on the teaching-learning process, including measures of teacher effort. The paper assesses the impact of the models on several educati ER -