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RESUME Larry Wolff 2016
RESUME Larry Wolff 2016
Curriculum Vitae
Employment
1998--present. Consultant, education in developing countries. I have undertaken ad-hoc
assignments for the Global Partnership in Education, the UNESCO Institute for
Statistics, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the World Bank, the Institute for
International Economics, the United States Agency for International Development
(USAID), the Inter-American Dialogue, the German Government (KFW), the Academy
for Educational Development, and Creative Associates. Recent areas of interest include
private education, education financing, cost-effectiveness in education, technology and
education, educational assessment, science and technology, community colleges, and
primary, secondary, and higher education reform. Reports and papers on these and
other subjects are listed below.
1974-1997. Projects Officer, World Bank, Washington, D.C. Worked for 22 years almost
exclusively in the field of education and in three regions of the world: North Africa and
the Middle East (1993-97), Latin America and the Caribbean (1974-77 and 1987-93), and
sub-Saharan Africa (1978-1987). Appraised and supervised projects and undertook
analytical work at all levels of education, from pre-schooling to graduate education and
research, and in areas which included assessment, textbook development, financing,
instructional technology, and implementation of education reform. While mainly working
on operations, I was also able to publish a number of analytical and policy reports (see
below).
1969-1971. Ford Foundation fellowship, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, to study primary
education in Brazil, and also consultant for USAID, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
1966-67. English Teacher, Pascack Hills High School, Montvale, New Jersey
1962-64. Peace Corps Volunteer, Ghana, secondary school teacher of English and
French
Countries Worked In
Sub-Saharan Africa: Angola, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Angola, Swaziland, Lesotho,
Malawi, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Mauritius, Comoros Islands, Djibouti, Mozambique,
Ghana, South Africa
North Africa and Middle East: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Iran, Egypt, Israel,
Latin America and Caribbean: Brazil, Mexico, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, El Salvador,
Dominican Republic, Chile, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Colombia, Panama,
Paraguay, Peru, Bolivia, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana.
USA
The Costs of Monitoring SDG IV, UNESCO Institute for Statistics, May 2016,
unpublished.
Appraisal of Kenyas National Education Sector Plan, A Report Submitted to the Global
Partnership for Education, March, 2014, Nairobi, Kenya, World Bank and Global
Partnership for Education, unpublished.
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Review of requests for funding from the Global Partnership for Education, Lesotho,
Nepal, Rwanda, Togo, Mongolia, Gambia, Mozambique, Washington DC, unpublished,
2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014.
The Costs of Education in Eastern Africa, A Review of Data, Issues, and Policies,
World Bank Staff Working Paper No. 702, 1984
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The Lesotho Distance Teaching Center, in Basic Education and Agricultural Extension:
Costs Effects and Alternatives, World Bank Staff Working Paper No. 564, 1983.
A Human Capital Strategy for Competing in World Markets (with Frederick Golladay,
Sue Berryman, and Jon Avins), in Prospects for the Middle East and North Africa,
Macmillan and Company, London, 1998.
Iran: Education, Training, and Labor Markets, World Bank sector report, June, 1996
(available to the public through the Public Information Center (PIC) of the World Bank)
Algeria: Social Safety Net Support Project, World Bank appraisal report, March, 1996
(available to the public through the PIC)
Improving the Use of Information for Education Decision Making in El Salvador (with
Lucrecia Santibanez), USAID, El Salvador, 2005 (unpublished).
Challenges and Opportunities for Post Secondary Education and Training in Barbados,
Bahamas, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago, IDB, Washington, DC, 2005
Private Education and Public Policy in Latin America, ed., with Juan Carlos Navarro and
Pablo Gonzalez and, IDB and PREAL (Program for the Reform of Latin American
Education, a joint program of the Inter-American Dialogue and the Corporation for
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Research in Development), published in Spanish in Santiago, Chile 2002, and in
English, Inter-American Dialogue, Washington, DC, 2005 .
Money Counts: Projecting Educational Expenditures in Latin America to the Year 2015,
(with Martin Gurra), IDB, Washington, DC, 2004, and UNESCO/UIS working paper, April
2005.
Education and Training in Latin America: the Path Ahead, (with Claudio de Moura
Castro), in After the Washington Consensus, ed. John Williamson and Pedro Pablo
Kucynksi, International Institute of Economics, Washington DC, 2003
Educational Assessments in Latin America: the State of the Art, in Applied Psychology:
An International Review 2004.
Primary Education in Latin America: the Unfinished Agenda, (with Ernesto and Paulina
Schiefelbein), IDB Technical paper, 2002. Also published in Spanish by PREAL.
Television for Secondary Education: the Experience of Mexico and Brazil (with
others), in Technologies for Education: Potentials Parameters, and Prospects. Ed. Wadi
Haddad and Alexandra Draxler, UNESCO and Academy for Educational Development,
Paris and Washington dc 2002.
Public or Private Education for Latin America: That is the (false) Question, with Claudio
de Moura Castro, IDB technical paper, 2001
Secondary Schools and the Transition to Work in Latin America and the Caribbean,
(with Claudio de Moura Castro and Martin Carnoy), IDB technical paper, 2000
Secondary Education in Latin America: the Challenge of Growth and Reform, (with
Claudio de Moura Castro), IDB technical paper, 2000
Reforming Primary and Secondary Education: an IDB Strategy Paper (with Claudio de
Moura Castro and Juan Carlos Navarro), 1999
Improving the Quality of Primary Education in Latin America and the Caribbean: Towards
the 21st Century, (with Ernesto Schiefelbein and Jorge Valenzuela), World Bank
Discussion Paper No 257, 1994.
Higher Education Reform in Chile, Brazil and Venezuela: Towards a Redefinition of the
Role of the State, (edited with Douglas Albrecht), A View from LATHR No. 34, World
Bank, 1992, and also UNESCO/CRESALC (Caracas, 1997.
The Economics of Higher Education in Brazil, (with Jean Jacques Paul), in Opportunity
Foregone: Education in Brazil, edited by Nancy Birdsall, Barbara Bruns and Richard
Sabot, Johns Hopkins Press, 1996. Also in the Revista Brasileira de Educacao,
October, 1995 and as A View from LATHR No. 30, World Bank 1992)
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Repetition and Inadequate Achievement in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Review
of Magnitudes, Causes, Relationships, and Strategies (with Ernesto Schiefelbein), in
The Major Project in Education, UNESCO/OREALC Publication No. 30, April 1993.
Also in Estudos em Avaliacao Educacional, Carlos Chagas Foundation, Sao Paulo,
Brazil, January 1993, and as A View from LATHR No. 31, World Bank, August, 1992.
Brazil (Sao Paulo): Innovations in Basic Education Project, World Bank appraisal
report, June 1991
Articles in Techknowlogia (an on-line journal on technology and education, which can be
found at www.techknowlogia.org), on the following subjects (with co-authors): The
Brain, Learning, and Technology, What is the Digital Divide? The African Virtual
University, The Lowly Language Lab: Going Digital, Learning Software for Pre-
Schools: Is it Worth Purchasing? The Case of the Virtual Campus of Perus Higher
Technological Institute (TECSUP), Sources of Objective Assessment of Web and Multi
Media Learning Materials in Science and Mathematics, Technology and the
Management of Learning: the New Accountability, Images of Teaching: the TIMSS
Video taping Project, Life-Long Learning for the Third Age, Vocational and Technical
Training: Seven Policies for the Effective Use of Technology, Multi-grade Schools and
Technology, High Speed Internet Access: the Future for the World and the Implications
for Developing Countries, Mexico: the Virtual University of the Technological Institute
of Monterrey, Costa Rica: Are Computers in School Cost-effective? Instructional
Technology: Then and Now, Mexicos Telesecundaria: Bringing Education by
Television to Rural Areas, 1999-2002
Debt Relief for Science and Technology, (with Wadi Haddad) a report written for
UNESCO, 2000.
Science and Technology: An IDB Strategy paper, (with Claudio de Moura Castro and
John Alic) 2000
Investment in Science Research and Training: the Case of Brazil and Implications for
Other Countries, (with others), A View from LATHR No. 19, World Bank, September
1991
Brazil: Science Research and Training Project, World Bank appraisal report, October,
1991
September 2016