192 Brooke Zobrist and Patrick McCormick
Ethnic Conflict and Secessionism”, Institute for Quantitative Political Science,
Harvard University, September 2005.- World Bank, From Schooling Access to Learning Outcomes: An Unfinished Agenda
— An Evaluation of World Bank Support to Primary Education (Washington, D.C.:
World Bank, 2006). - Alan Mounier and Phasina Tangchuang, eds., Education and Knowledge in
Thailand: The Quality Controversy (Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 2010). - These definitions are based on those presented in Jennie Litvack and Jessica
Seddon, eds., Decentralization Briefing Notes (Washington, D.C.: World Bank,
2000), p. 2. - Union Daily, 18 June 2013.
- Gretchen Rhines Cheney, Betsy Brown Ruzzi and Kartikh Muralidharan,
“A Profile of the Indian Education System: Prepared for New Commission on
the Skills of the American Workforce”, National Center on Education and the
Economy, November 2005. - These definitions are a modification of those of Hamish Nixon et al., State and
Region Governments in Myanmar (Yangon: The Asia Foundation and Myanmar
Development Research Institute-CESD, 2013), p. 4. - Interviews with multiple education officials in Mon State.
- Interviews with school principals and officials in Mon State and Yangon Region.
- This process of firing is not necessarily lengthy. A recent report in the Irrawaddy
describes how a teacher was fired after attending a commemoration of the
events of 8 August 1988. Lewi Weng, “Sacking of Naypyidaw School teacher
Draws Condemnation”, Irrawaddy, 26 August 2013 <http://www.irrawaddy.
org/reform/sacking- of-naypyidaw-schoolteacher-draws-condemnation.html>. - “Education for All: Access to and Quality of Education in Myanmar”, Conference
on Development Policy Options with Special Reference to Education and Health
in Myanmar, Nepyidaw, 13–16 February 2012, p. 1. Here as elsewhere, terms
such as “modern” and “developed” are not defined. - We learned later that this person retired the very next day after meeting us.
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