enrollment ratios. Possible explanations for such poor outcomes include demand - for example, low perceived returns to education … supply-based interventions in such contexts. Our intervention created simple schools offering four years of education to … points better than controls on early grade reading and math tests, demonstrating that the intervention taught children to …

We show that a short-term (31 day) reading program, designed to provide age-appropriate reading material, to train … teachers in their use, and to support teachers' initial efforts for about a month improves students' reading skills by 0 …, probably due to a reduced emphasis on reading after the program. We find that the program also encourages students to read more …

over 15 years ago, EBLI aims to provide teachers with instructional strategies to improve reading accuracy, fluency and … classrooms during the 2014-15 school year, we find no significant impact on reading performance. Teacher survey responses and …

preschool programs spend reading to their children using an electronic reading application that audio and video records parents … information about the importance of reading to children. The treatment increased usage of the reading application by one standard …

the effect of order-preserving scale transformations on the evolution of the black-white reading test score gap from …

This paper presents the results from a randomized controlled trial of Chapter One, an early elementary reading tutoring … over two times more likely to reach the program's target reading level by the end of kindergarten (70% vs. 32%). The … provide promising evidence of an affordable and sustainable approach for delivering personalized reading tutoring at scale …

-owners but mixed results on satisfaction, motivation, and other measures. Perceived participation in decisions is not in itself …