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

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 …

. How to do this, especially in primary school, where reading, writing and mathematical skills are first acquired, is the … results than giving schools cash grants for supplies or additional teachers. This project, which looks at only one school …

), introducing per-capita based financing and delegating significant financial and decision-making autonomy to school principals …