64 S E R I E desarrollo productivo Achieving educational quality: What schools teach us Learning from Chile’s P900 primary schools Beverley A. Carlson Restructuring and Competitiveness Network Division of Production, Productivity and Management Santiago, Chile, January, 2000 This document was prepared by Ms. Beverley A. Carlson (e-mail:
[email protected]), Social Affairs Officer, Division of Production, Productivity and Management of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations (ECLAC). The views expressed in this document, which has been reproduced without formal editing, are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Organization. The author would like to express gratitude to the Ministry of Education of Chile and its P900 schools programme, provincial authorities and, especially, each of the schools in the study that shared their time, energy and knowledge, and are the center of this work. The author would also like to thank the following people for their support in carrying out the study: Pilar Bascuñán, David Cornejo, Françoise Delannoy, Juan Eduardo García-Huidobro, Lysette Henríquez, Mónica Jaramillo, Howard LaFranchi, Laura López, Elizabeth Love, Rosalía Manchego, Iván Ortiz, Isolda Pacheco, Walter Parraguez, Joseph Ramos, Juan Serrano, Alejandra Silva and Carmen Sotomayor. United Nations Publication LC/L.1279-P ISSN: 1020-5179 ISBN: 92-1-121249-9 Copyright © United Nations, January, 2000. All rights reserved Sales N°: E.99.II.G.60 Printed in United Nations, Santiago, Chile Applications for the right to reproduce this work are welcomed and should be sent to the Secretary of the Publications Board, United Nations Headquarters, New York, N.Y.