education they receive. School enrollment rates have increased dramatically in developing counties since 1960, but many children … still leave school at a young age and often learn little while in school. This chapter reviews recent research on the impact …

school management. When teacher data are marched with school-level data on student achievement using a national assessment … data set (SIMCE), some teacher and school characteristics affect student performance, but a great deal of unexplained … authority, whether the school schedule is strictly enforced, and the extent to which teachers have autonomy in designing …