Improving Learning Outcomes in the Caribbean :Challenges and Lessons

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

This discussion paper has been commissioned by the Economic Development Institute
of the World Bank for a workshop held in Trinidad & Tobago, April 21-23, 1999. The
workshop was intended to exchange ideas, learned lessons and achievements among
the leaders of educational reform in the participating countries of the Caribbean centres
around four themes: Teacher development, School-based Management, Educational
Assessment, and Curriculum Reform. The last of these is the subject of this paper.