. 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 …

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

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

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

"Vermeersch and Kremer examine the effects of subsidized school meals on school participation, educational achievement …, and school finance in a developing country setting. They use data from a program that was implemented in 25 randomly … chosen preschools in a pool of 50. Children's school participation was 30 percent higher in the treatment group than in the …

school systems in Brazil to obtain better results than would be expected based purely on socioeconomic factors. This report … education policy factors that appeared to help some municipal school systems obtain better-than-expected Prova Brasil results …

score data for 3rd and 4th year primary school pupils in Guatemala and Peru, and 5th grade pupils in Mexico, the authors … assess the magnitude of the indigenous and non-indigenous test score gap and identify the main family and school inputs … by family and school characteristics is between 41 and 75 percent of the overall test-score gap. Furthermore, family …