Rural Education Project

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The overall objective of the Rural Education Project for Romania is to have rural school students benefit from improved access to quality education, as evidenced by higher achievement scores and completion and transition rates. This wil be achieved through four project components. Component 1 improves teaching and learning by financing school-based professional development for teachers, providing career development opportunities; upgrading basic education conditions in schools, and ensuring access of rural students to basic teaching-learning materials. Component 2 improves school-community partnerships by setting up a school-community grants program. Component 3 strengthens the analytic capacity of the Ministry of Education and Research (MER) at national and local levels for policy analysis and formulation, as well as for planning and evaluation. Specifically, it establishes the National Education Indicators Set (NEI); improves the National Education Database (NED); and prepares a National Assessment of Basic Education. Component 4 strengthens project management capacity; its activities include forming an information, education, and communication strategy for increasing awareness of policy and decisionmakers and generating stakeholders' support. The project will support a broader community involvement in education management, working not only with education authorities, but also with the local councils, parents, and representatives of communities.