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LATEN Dissemination Note # 19 Stakeholder Consultation and Analysis: Second Phase of the Social Assessment for the El Salvador EDUCO Program and the Basic Education Modernization Project June 1997 Maria-Valeria Junho Pena Kathryn Johns Swartz Tania Salem Miriam Abramovay Carlos Briones The World Bank Latin America Technical Department Environment Unit  Contents Foreword v Abbreviations and Acronyms vi Acknowledgments vii Executive Summary ix Introduction 1 Phase One: Social Assessment3 Phase Two: Stakeholder Consultation and Analysis4 Results of the Stakeholder Consultation and Analysis 6 The Value of Education6 Children and Education11 Children and School12 Children and Teachers14 Teachers and School15 EDUCO and Non-EDUCO Teachers16 Dropping Out and Repeating Grades18 Dropping Out According to the Children19 Children Repeating Grades22 Conclusions 22 Appendixes A.Methodology25 B.Children’s Written Statements27 Bibliography 31 Boxes 1.Education With the Participation of the Community (EDUCO)2 2.Why Parents Want Control4 3.Views on Economic Imperatives and Education8 4.What is School Useful For?11 5.Gender and Education12 6.What is Good and What is Missing From Your School?13 7.Good and Bad Teachers14 8.Dropping Out of School Due to Violence20 9.School Uniforms21 Tables 1.Growth of the EDUCO School System2 2.Opinions About Education and Work7 3.Principal Causes of Poverty According to Parents and Teachers7 4.Parents’ Educational Goals for Their Children9 5.Parents’ Role in Supporting Education10 6.Opinions on Teachers and Teaching15 7.Teachers’ Opinions on Teachers and Schools16 8.Teachers’ Opinions on Teaching17 9.Why Do Children Drop Out of School?18 Foreword The Dissemination Note Series of the Latin America and the Caribbean Region’s Environment Unit (LATEN) seeks to share the results of our analytical and operational work, both completed or in progress. Through this series, we present the preliminary findings of larger studies in an abbreviated form, as