Recently the World Bank Group launched a new open data tool
that provides an in-depth, easy accessible, and comparative data on education
policies around the world. They call it the Systems Approach for Better
Education Results (SABER) and this tool helps countries collect and analyze
information on their education policies, compare themselves to other countries.
Countries all over the world have had a hand in funding this program. With this
data available to them, countries will be able to find the problem areas within
their own education systems and target them as an area that requires reforms.
The ultimate goal is for everybody to go to school and learn. The number of
children in schools has been increasing over time but the amount being learned
still remains low. This new tool guides countries to
implement more effective reforms, investments in a variety of educational
programs, and finding ways to spread a quality education to those who do not
have access to it. The program has already begun to show success reaching over
100 countries so far. The Bank Group plans to use the data to help countries
with policy changes that will enhance student performance.
Analysis
This tool is the result of a failing system. Education has
tried dozens of new reforms in the attempt to find a solution and nothing has
been making significant improvements. This program is going to find the problem
and fix it at its source for each country. But it is important to keep in mind
that this tool is also comparing countries to one another keeping globalization
rising as well as keeping countries competitive to beat everybody else. Technology
has become a very prevalent part of our world and it has helped solve a lot of
our world’s problems while at the same time creating new problems. This program
has already shown success in places such as Nigeria where currently there are 11
million children that are not going to school. SABER was used to look at this
country’s education policies and find its faults such as the lack of standard information
on student learning and a mismatch between teacher skills and student needs.
Now that these problems have been identified it is the hope that the proper
efforts will be put forth for them to be solved. Globally, this will help the
education crisis that we have found ourselves in and socially this will help
people of a lower socioeconomic status around the world become more educated
which will give them the ability to keep up with today’s ever changing world.
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