exacerbated by the need to ensure a suitable range of subject expertise among the teachers at a school …

wisely should thus be a top priority for education policymakers. Systems approach for better education results (SABER) school … finance informs this conversation with a focus on the policies that drive performance in a school finance system. SABER school … finance collects, analyzes, synthesizes, and disseminates comprehensive information on school finance policies in primary and …

school system in Venezuela. The authors find an Average Treatment Effect on the order of 0.1 standard deviations … (approximately 16 percent of the average score), using a control group of public school students. These effects are significantly …

teachers' competence, facilitating school management, inspection, planning and data gathering. This is being achieved by … involving stakeholders at all levels in the process of primary school improvement. The National Primary Education Commission …

primary school enrollment rate from 28 percent to 53 percent by the year 2000, increase the efficiency of resource use within …'s objectives are: (a) to increase the gross primary school enrollment rate from 40 percent to 53 percent (during the project period …), increase rural student participation from 20 percent to 40 percent, and increase the gross primary school enrollment rate of …

series of recent World Bank and other studies on teacher absence and incentives for performance. Surprise school visits …